6 and 8, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1970. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
6 and 8, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- shifting-passage-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1970
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 6 and 8, Fore Street, Penzance, TR19 6TQ
- OS grid reference
- SW 469 263
- Coordinates
- 50.08364, -5.53932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century building on Fore Street. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble with a slate roof, featuring hipped ends and gabled ends. The building is two storeys high and originally had three windows. These windows are now later sash windows without glazing bars. Two modern glazed doors are present. The building is included on the heritage register for group value, as it forms part of a group of buildings consisting of numbers 6 to 10.
Local climate
6 and 8, Fore Street 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 — 6 transactions since 1995
- 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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