No 24 and Attached Forecourt Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. Town house, office. 3 related planning applications.
No 24 and Attached Forecourt Railings
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-panel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- Town house, office
- Address
- No 24 and Attached Forecourt Railings, Lemon Street, Truro, TR1 2LS
- OS grid reference
- SW 825 446
- Coordinates
- 50.26166, -5.05192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 24 is a town house, now used as an office, built around 1803 by Richard Arthur, who was both the builder and lessee. The building features a granite ashlar basement with local freestone ashlar above, topped by an asbestos slate roof that includes two hipped roof dormers behind a parapet and brick end stacks. It has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high, plus a later attic over the basement, with a front that has a two-window range.
The entrance is marked by a round-headed doorcase with fluted pilasters and an open pediment on the left. It has panelled reveals, a six-panel door, and a spoked fanlight. There is a mid-floor string course, a moulded parapet cornice, and early 19th-century hornless sash windows with glazing bars set under flat arches with projecting key blocks. The straight joints flanking the wider ground-floor window and to the left of the window above, along with surviving voussoirs, indicate that both openings have been reduced in size.
The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. The original latticed wrought-iron railings flank the entrance bridge and stand over the forecourt wall, which adjoins granite steps leading down to the basement.
Local climate
No 24 and Attached Forecourt Railings receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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