Trenow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Cottage.

Trenow Cottage

WRENN ID
white-arch-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1950
Type
Cottage
Address
Trenow Cottage, Penzance
OS grid reference
SW 480 319
Coordinates
50.13441, -5.52733
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Trenow Cottage is an early 18th-century building constructed from colour-washed rubble and cob, topped with a thatched hipped roof. The eaves have a plastered soffit. The cottage is two storeys high and features four low and wide sash windows with glazing bars and small panes, all set in revealed casings. A central door is topped by a late 19th-century tiled hood. The building is also adorned with two brick chimney stacks.

Local climate

Trenow Cottage 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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