48, Chapel Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. A C18 House.

48, Chapel Street

WRENN ID
bitter-forge-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 February 1974
Type
House
Address
48, Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AF
OS grid reference
SW 474 301
Coordinates
50.1173, -5.53466
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 48 Chapel Street is an 18th-century building with a pebble-dash exterior and a steep slate roof featuring gable ends. It is a low, two-storey structure with two restored sash windows that have no glazing bars and flat architraves. To the left of the windows, there is a modern door. This building is included in the listing for its group value, as it is part of a collection of listed buildings on the northeast side of Chapel Street.

Local climate

48, Chapel Street 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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