The General Store is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1972. A C18 Store.
The General Store
- WRENN ID
- far-wattle-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1972
- Type
- Store
- Address
- The General Store, Tyringham Road, St. Ives
- OS grid reference
- SW 545 372
- Coordinates
- 50.18415, -5.43974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The General Store is an 18th-century cottage located on Tyringham Road in Lelant. It is built of granite rubble and has two storeys. The front features two 19th-century sash windows with vertical glazing bars, which have gable heads and shaped barge boards. There is a central doorway, and the building is topped with a slate roof. The right-hand end of the cottage dates from the late 18th or early 19th century and has a bias hipped slurried slate roof, along with a sash window that also has glazing bars.
Local climate
The General Store receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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