51 and 53, St Austell Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. House. 1 related planning application.

51 and 53, St Austell Road

WRENN ID
broken-basalt-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1974
Type
House
Address
51 and 53, St Austell Road, St. Blaise, PL24 2SL
OS grid reference
SX 054 532
Coordinates
50.34714, -4.73653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This early 18th-century building, comprising numbers 51 and 53 St Austell Road, is stuccoed and two storeys in height. It has two widely spaced windows, each with three lights beneath segmental arches accented with keyblocks, and contains glazing bars. The central doorway is glazed. The roof is steeply pitched with gable ends, and there are chimney stacks at each end. Historically, the building served as the Old Duke William Inn and was the early home and traditional birthplace of Ralph Allen, a postal pioneer.

Local climate

51 and 53, St Austell Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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 2001
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  • 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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