Belvedere and Attached Garden Walls to Westhill is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1994. Belvedere.

Belvedere and Attached Garden Walls to Westhill

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1994
Type
Belvedere
Address
Belvedere and Attached Garden Walls to Westhill, West Street, Penryn
OS grid reference
SW 779 346
Coordinates
50.17021, -5.11028
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Belvedere and attached garden walls to Westhill, located on West Street in Penryn, date from the early 19th century and mid to late 19th century. The high garden walls are constructed of local rubble and some cob, featuring scantle slate copings and red clay ridge tiles, including one 17th-century crested tile. The belvedere is positioned at the angle of L-plan walls, which extend approximately 83 meters to the northeast and 22 meters to the southeast.

The belvedere itself is made of granite rubble with brick arches and a first-floor sill string. It has a pyramidal dry Delabole slate roof with exposed rafter ends at the eaves. The building has a small square plan, with a first-floor observatory above the ground floor, accessible by a staircase. It is designed in a simple Italianate style and has two storeys, with each elevation featuring three round-arched lights on the first floor. The right-hand (north) return has surviving 2-pane casements. The ground floor includes a segmental-arched doorway on the left side of the east front and a small window opening on the right-hand return. The interior is virtually complete, featuring a straight-flight staircase and boarded walls and ceiling on the first floor.

Local climate

Belvedere and Attached Garden Walls to Westhill 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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