Penponds Church Institute and Chapel House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Church institute.
Penponds Church Institute and Chapel House
- WRENN ID
- western-alcove-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church institute
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Penponds Church Institute and Chapel House, Higher Penponds Road, Camborne
- OS grid reference
- SW 636 389
- Coordinates
- 50.203, -5.31287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penponds Church Institute and Chapel House is a Church of England Infants School built in 1849. It features uncoursed killas rubble with granite quoins and dressings, topped with slate roofs. The building has a rectangular plan and is a single storey. The asymmetrical facade of the Institute consists of three bays but has four windows. It includes a doorway in the left bay with a modern board door and shallow overlight, along with tall 18-pane sashed windows with exposed boxes—one to the left of the door, two in the centre, and one in the right-hand bay. There is a chimney at the right-hand gable. The Chapel House, which continues to the right, is lower and has four bays, featuring a doorway in the first bay (abutting the junction) and three 12-pane sashed windows, also with exposed boxes, along with a chimney at the right-hand gable. The rear and interior have not been inspected. This building was constructed on the site of Mrs Percival's Endowed School of 1761, which is mentioned on a wall monument in the Church of St Martin and St Meriadocus on Church Street. It is included for its group value with Ivy Cottage to the left and Trevithick's Cottage opposite.
Local climate
Penponds Church Institute and Chapel House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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