Fishing Gear Store Noah's Ark Studio North Studio Owl's Nest Porth Enys Flats Treganza Studios Watebury Worths Studio is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1970. Studio and flats. 2 related planning applications.
Fishing Gear Store Noah's Ark Studio North Studio Owl's Nest Porth Enys Flats Treganza Studios Watebury Worths Studio
- WRENN ID
- kindled-solder-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1970
- Type
- Studio and flats
- Address
- Fishing Gear Store Noah's Ark Studio North Studio Owl's Nest Porth Enys Flats Treganza Studios Watebury Worths Studio, Abbey Place, Penzance
- OS grid reference
- SW 469 264
- Coordinates
- 50.08388, -5.53896
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of buildings dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries, situated behind North Cliff. The complex comprises two ranges. The south block is constructed of rubble, partly plastered, and stands three storeys high with a slate roof. The south side is plastered and jettied over the ground floor, featuring 8 windows with casements; the ground floor is partly open. The north side is of rubble and includes steps leading to first-floor doors, with simple iron railings. The north block is largely weatherboarded and has slate roofs, featuring 2 and 4-window fronts with casements. The ground floor of the north block was originally open, supported by crude granite piers, but is now filled in with windows and doors. The buildings include No 1 (Waterbury), Nos 2 and 3 Noah’s Ark Studio, the North Studio, the Fishing Gear Store, Nos 1 and 2 Porth Enys Flats, Worths Studio, the Owl's Nest, Porth Enys Flats, Nos 1 and 2 Tregenza Studios (also known as 1 and 2 Tregenza Flats).
Local climate
Fishing Gear Store Noah's Ark Studio North Studio Owl's Nest Porth Enys Flats Treganza Studios Watebury Worths Studio 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1998
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings