Old Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Fire station, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Old Fire Station
- WRENN ID
- worn-latch-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Fire station, shop
- Address
- Old Fire Station, 2, Broad Street, Penryn, TR10 8JH
- OS grid reference
- SW 785 343
- Coordinates
- 50.16765, -5.10177
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Fire Station, now a shop, was built in 1899. It is located on a corner site on Broad Street in Penryn. The building is rendered with rusticated quoins to the first floor, topped by a crow-stepped gable featuring a crested finial. The front of the building has eared architraves with segmental heads to the first-floor windows. Ground-floor end pilasters extend to a fluted entablature and a full-width moulded cornice above an elliptically-arched doorway with vermiculated dressings. The roof is covered with dry slate, and there are cast-iron ogee gutters. The building is two storeys high with a two-window front. Originally, the windows were transomed casements, but the doorway now contains a double shopfront. Internally, a moulded entablature from the former gallery is visible from the ground floor.
Local climate
Old Fire Station receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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