Penrose House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1970. House. 4 related planning applications.

Penrose House

WRENN ID
gentle-string-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 April 1970
Type
House
Address
Penrose House, Chyandour Cliff, Penzance, TR18 3LQ
OS grid reference
SW 477 308
Coordinates
50.12413, -5.531
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Penrose House is an early 19th-century building located in Chyandour Cliff, Penzance. It features a stucco exterior and a slate hipped roof with panelled eaves. The building has one string course and corner panelled pilasters. The windows are arranged in a semi-circular headed recessed architrave with ogee arches inside, and there are three sash windows with glazing bars on the front. The house is two storeys tall and includes a side entrance.

Local climate

Penrose 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
  • Sale history — 18 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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