The Wig and Pen Public House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Wig and Pen Public House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- dim-tallow-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1993
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Wig and Pen Public House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings, Frances Street, Truro, TR1 3DP
- OS grid reference
- SW 823 448
- Coordinates
- 50.26373, -5.05572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wig and Pen Public House, along with its attached forecourt walls and railings, is a pair of villas dating from the 1830s. The building features stucco on masonry and has a hipped asbestos slate roof with projecting eaves. It is situated on a street corner with an L-shaped plan. The structure has two storeys, with a three-window range facing Frances Street and a four-window range facing Castle Street. The first-floor windows are early 19th-century sixteen-pane sashes, while the ground floor has 20th-century horned sixteen-pane sashes and an early 19th-century sash with margin panes located to the right of the Castle Street front. All windows are set in raised stucco architraves with vermiculated keys.
There is a later 19th-century stuccoed canted porch featuring a cornice to the parapet and a mid-20th-century door positioned at the angle between the two fronts. Above the central semi-circular arched doorway on the Castle Street front is a blind window, with a mid-20th-century door set in a raised stucco architrave and a bracketed cornice over a six-panel door that is also set in an architrave with a decorative fanlight.
Inside, the ground floor has been altered with plaster stripped from the walls, while the rest of the interior has not been inspected. The property is complemented by low dressed granite forecourt walls that serve as plinths for 19th-century iron railings, along with granite steps leading up to the porch.
Local climate
The Wig and Pen Public House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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