8, St Stephen's Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Village house. 3 related planning applications.
8, St Stephen's Hill
- WRENN ID
- guardian-stronghold-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Village house
- Address
- 8, St Stephen's Hill, Launceston, PL15 8HN
- OS grid reference
- SX 327 852
- Coordinates
- 50.64268, -4.36646
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 St Stephen's Hill is a village house dating from the 17th or 18th century, with its front remodeled in the early 19th and early 20th centuries. The building is constructed of painted rubble and features shallow segmental arches. It has a steep rag slate roof with a brick stack on the left and a lateral rubble stack on the right. The house has an L-shaped plan and is two storeys high, with a three-window range. The windows include early 19th-century sixteen-pane hornless sashes, except for an early 20th-century canted bay on the left with 20th-century lights and a 20th-century window on the right. A 20th-century door is located to the right of centre. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
8, St Stephen's Hill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- 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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