British Legion is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. A C18 Community hall. 1 related planning application.
British Legion
- WRENN ID
- lone-joist-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Community hall
- Address
- British Legion, 18, Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AW
- OS grid reference
- SW 473 301
- Coordinates
- 50.11731, -5.53522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The British Legion building, located at No. 18 Chapel Street, Penzance, dates to the 18th century. It is constructed of painted brickwork with granite quoins, featuring a modillioned eaves cornice and a single string course. The building is two storeys high with five windows. A slight projection houses the central doorway and a window, topped with a pediment. The doorway is framed by two Ionic pilasters and an entablature. To the right is a two-storey extension built of granite ashlar, with a rusticated ground floor containing double gates with fielded panels, set beneath a rusticated granite flat arch. Above this extension is a segmental bowed sashes oriel with a modillioned eaves cornice. The roof is slate and hipped. The building forms a group with Nos. 15 to 18 (inclusive) and the Methodist Church.
Local climate
British Legion sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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