28 and 29, Boscawen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1971. A Early 19th Century Town house/shop. 3 related planning applications.
28 and 29, Boscawen Street
- WRENN ID
- hushed-flagstone-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1971
- Type
- Town house/shop
- Period
- Early 19th Century
- Address
- 28 and 29, Boscawen Street, Truro, TR1 2QQ
- OS grid reference
- SW 826 448
- Coordinates
- 50.26355, -5.05058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
28 and 29 Boscawen Street is a town house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the early 19th century and features a stucco front on studwork, topped with a natural slate roof that has wide eaves at the front. The building has three storeys and a four-window front. Notable architectural details include rusticated quoins, a string course, and widely spaced eaves brackets. The first floor retains two original 12-pane hornless sash windows on the left, while the other windows are 20th-century copies with horns, all set within original openings that have pilasters, consoles, and moulded hoods with pediments above the first-floor windows. The ground floor has been altered to accommodate a large 20th-century shopfront, which features wide pilasters and a tall fascia. The interior of the ground floor has also been modified in the 20th century, but the rest of the interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
28 and 29, Boscawen Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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