Nos 40 and 42 and Attached Forecourt Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1994. Town house.
Nos 40 and 42 and Attached Forecourt Walls
- WRENN ID
- salt-footing-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1994
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Nos 40 and 42 and Attached Forecourt Walls, West Street, Penryn
- OS grid reference
- SW 782 345
- Coordinates
- 50.16961, -5.10726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 40 and 42 are an unequal pair of town houses built in the mid-19th century. The front of No. 42 is finished in stucco on a rubble base, while No. 40 is mostly rendered. Both houses have dry slate roofs with projecting front eaves; No. 42 features a hipped front end and a rendered brick stack on the right. The buildings have a double-depth plan, with No. 40 having two storeys and No. 42 having three storeys, resulting in an overall three-window range.
No. 42 retains its original 12-pane hornless sash windows, while No. 40 has later horned copies. The central entrance features a pair of round arched pilastered doorways with consoles and a moulded hood, along with original six-panel doors and plain fanlights. There is an early 20th-century open front porch with a glass roof, shaped fascia, chamfered posts, and shaped arched sides with a latticed dado.
On the right side, there is a ramped stucco brick wall that connects to a hogs-back granite ashlar forecourt plinth, which is topped with 20th-century scrolled iron railings. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Nos 40 and 42 and Attached Forecourt Walls 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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