Custom House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Custom house. 2 related planning applications.
Custom House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-keystone-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Custom house
- Address
- Custom House, Custom House Court, Penzance, TR18 4AA
- OS grid reference
- SW 476 300
- Coordinates
- 50.11664, -5.53201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Custom House is an early 19th-century building located in Penzance. It is constructed of coursed granite rubble and features a slate hipped roof with wide eaves soffit. The building is set into a steeply sloping site, with the southwest elevation being one storey high and the northeast elevation rising to three storeys.
On the southwest side, there are two windows with sashes and glazing bars, along with a central doorway that has a plain granite architrave and entablature. The northeast elevation, which faces the harbour, has three windows with sashes and glazing bars. This side is partially obscured by a two-storey loft wing that has an open ground floor supported by crude granite posts, with a slate-hung upper storey featuring two-light casements and loft doors. The outside of this elevation is colour-washed rubble, with two small casements and a central door on each floor.
The Custom House, along with Nos 3 and 4, as well as the Revenue, forms a group of buildings.
Local climate
Custom House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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