Duncan House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Duncan House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-lime-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Duncan House, 14, Lower Fore Street, Saltash, PL12 6JX
- OS grid reference
- SX 431 588
- Coordinates
- 50.4083, -4.20885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Duncan House is an early 19th-century property situated on Lower Fore Street. It is constructed of pointed rubble with granite quoins, and has a slate roof. The building is two storeys high, with an attic and basement. The garden front features three ranges of glazing bar sash windows, while the Fore Street elevation has an irregular arrangement, including one large sash window in the centre and an archway to the ground floor on the right. A portico porch with an entablature supported on granite Doric columns is located on the west return, leading to a six-panelled door with panelled reveals and a soffit.
Local climate
Duncan House 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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 — 7 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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