Lower Penscawn with Attached Front Walls Railings and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Lower Penscawn with Attached Front Walls Railings and Gate
- WRENN ID
- brooding-cobble-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Penscawn with Attached Front Walls Railings and Gate, TR8 5AL
- OS grid reference
- SW 871 549
- Coordinates
- 50.35583, -4.99384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Penscawn is a house dating from the mid-19th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed from granite rubble, with the front hung with asbestos slate. The slate roof features ridge tiles and gable ends, and there are gable end stacks with brick shafts. The house has a double depth plan, with a central entrance and principal rooms located to the front left and right, along with rear service rooms.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front. All windows are 16-pane sashes from the 19th century. The central entrance features a 20th-century half-glazed door with an overlight, while the left side is blind. On the right side, there is a 16-pane sash window at ground level. Attached to the house are front walls on both sides, made of rubble and about one metre high, topped with cambered granite coping and extending about four metres.
The front of the house is enclosed by a low granite wall with railings that have trefoil heads and columnar stanchions. There are terminal piers with pyramidal caps, and a central pair of plain granite monolith piers supporting a cast iron gate that matches the design of the railings. At each end of the enclosure, there is a pair of plain granite piers with 20th-century cast iron gates. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lower Penscawn with Attached Front Walls Railings and Gate receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- 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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