Buriton 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.
Buriton House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-shingle-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Buriton House, Alverton Road, Penzance, TR18 2QP
- OS grid reference
- SW 470 302
- Coordinates
- 50.11821, -5.54035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Buriton House is an early 19th-century building located on Alverton Street in Penzance. It features a stucco exterior with a granite plinth, a single string course, and granite quions. The roof is slate and hipped, with eaves soffits. The house has two storeys and a semi-basement. The west elevation has three windows, with the centre window blocked and the ground floor set in slight recesses. The north elevation facing the street has two windows and a doorway to the left, which has a round arch with an inner arch featuring a sunburst motif, along with stone steps and iron railings. The windows are sashes with glazing bars. The east elevation includes a slate-hung circular stair bay. Inside, the rooms are adorned with dentilled and beaded cornices, window shutters that have panels with sunburst motifs, and reeded architraves around the doorways and windows, as well as a staircase.
Local climate
Buriton 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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