8, Quay Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Town house.

8, Quay Street

WRENN ID
gentle-paling-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1993
Type
Town house
Address
8, Quay Street, Truro, TR1 2HD
OS grid reference
SW 828 447
Coordinates
50.26296, -5.04868
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 8 Quay Street is a town house that has been converted into two shops with accommodation above. It dates from the early 19th century and features a stucco exterior with a later textured finish, topped by an asbestos slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high, with a three-window range. The windows are likely original 16-pane sashes set within moulded architraves. The shop front on the left is an early 20th-century design, while the shop front on the right is from the later 20th century. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value with other nearby structures.

Local climate

8, Quay Street receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% 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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