The Wheel House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
The Wheel House
- WRENN ID
- half-chapel-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Wheel House, Fore Street, Penzance, TR19 6TQ
- OS grid reference
- SW 468 264
- Coordinates
- 50.08407, -5.53999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wheel House is an early 19th-century building on the north side of Mousehole Fore Street. It is constructed of granite rubble, with the end walls rendered in stucco. The roof is slate, with gabled and hipped ends. The building has two storeys and three windows. The upper floor windows are sashes without glazing bars. The ground floor now has a single large modern fixed-light window, and a modern glazed door. It is listed as part of a group value alongside Fern Cottage, Loon-Bennett.
Local climate
The Wheel 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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