29a, Higher Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Town house.
29a, Higher Market Street
- WRENN ID
- standing-wall-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 29a, Higher Market Street, Penryn
- OS grid reference
- SW 784 343
- Coordinates
- 50.16791, -5.10322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
29A Higher Market Street is a town house dating from the 18th century, built on a site that dates back to the 17th century. The building is constructed of painted rubble with timber lintels and features a steep dry slate roof. It has a single-depth plan and stands two storeys high, with a two-window range. The first-floor windows are positioned above the door and to the right. The ground floor has 20th-century horned copy sashes with glazing bars, including a wider tripartite sash on the right. There is also a 20th-century glazed door located slightly left of centre. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
29a, Higher Market Street receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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