Cape Cornwall Chimney is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1979. Chimney. 1 related planning application.
Cape Cornwall Chimney
- WRENN ID
- narrow-plinth-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1979
- Type
- Chimney
- Address
- Cape Cornwall Chimney, St. Just, TR19 7NN
- OS grid reference
- SW 350 318
- Coordinates
- 50.12723, -5.70877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cape Cornwall Chimney dates to 1589, with later alterations in the early 1850s. It is a tapering brick chimney built upon a tall, octagonal podium. The podium features arched panels and a brick cornice. The chimney served as a flue for an arsenic mine. It is dramatically situated on a headland and has historically been used by local fishermen as a navigational aid. The mine ceased operation around 1900.
Local climate
Cape Cornwall Chimney sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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