Claremont House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1993. Town house.
Claremont House
- WRENN ID
- cold-dormer-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1993
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Claremont House, 12, Exeter Street, Launceston
- OS grid reference
- SX 333 845
- Coordinates
- 50.63675, -4.35812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Claremont House is a town house with a shop, built in the early to mid 19th century. The exterior features render that has replaced stucco on a rubble base, with slate hanging on the visible returns. It has a hipped rag slate roof with projecting eaves and cast-iron ogee gutters. The building has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys high, with a two-window range. The original hornless sash windows with glazing bars are present on the upper floors. There is a mid 19th century pilastered doorway on the left side of the ground floor and a 12-pane shop window in a similar surround on the right, along with a 20th century pair of doors. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Claremont House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
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