16, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1971. Shop. 2 related planning applications.
16, King Street
- WRENN ID
- inner-ledge-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1971
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 16, King Street, Truro, TR1 2RQ
- OS grid reference
- SW 825 448
- Coordinates
- 50.26347, -5.05222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
16 King Street is a building that likely started as two townhouses but has been converted into three shops. It dates from the early 19th century. The front is made of stucco on studwork, topped with an asbestos slate roof and featuring a brick end stack on the right. The layout was changed during the conversion to shops; it was probably originally designed as a pair of double-depth houses, each with a central entrance hall flanked by two reception rooms. The building stands three storeys tall and has a regular six-window front with original 12-pane hornless sash windows set within stucco architraves. It features rusticated quoins, a moulded string course at the second floor, and a moulded cornice at the eaves. The first-floor windows have moulded hoods on consoles with pediments. The shop fronts, added in the 20th century, include moulded cornices for the fascia. The interior of the shops has been altered in the 20th century and was not inspected.
Local climate
16, King Street receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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.
- 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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