Boots Chemist is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Chemist shop.
Boots Chemist
- WRENN ID
- proud-keystone-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Chemist shop
- Address
- Boots Chemist, 9, Market Place, Penzance
- OS grid reference
- SW 472 302
- Coordinates
- 50.1184, -5.53688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boots Chemist, located at No 9 Penzance Market Place, is an early to mid-19th century building. It features a stucco exterior and a slate hipped roof with wide panelled eaves supported by paired brackets. The structure is three storeys high and has three windows with sash frames that lack glazing bars. The first-floor windows are set in semi-circular headed recesses, while the second-floor windows have plain architraves. The ground floor has a large modern recessed shop front with a deep fascia. This building occupies an important corner site and is part of a group that includes Nos 9 to 14 and Cresta Silks Limited in Queen Square.
Local climate
Boots Chemist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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