17, Pydar Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1971. Town house, office. 1 related planning application.
17, Pydar Street
- WRENN ID
- guardian-chimney-sparrow
- 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, office
- Address
- 17, Pydar Street, Truro, TR1 2AY
- OS grid reference
- SW 824 449
- Coordinates
- 50.26475, -5.0539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 Pydar Street is a town house, now used as an office, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of granite ashlar and features an asbestos slate roof that is concealed behind a parapet. The building has a double-depth plan with one room at the front and stands two storeys high with a two-window range. It has a plinth, a string course, and a moulded cornice at the parapet, topped with a blocking course. The round-arched doorway on the left is flanked by ashlar pilasters and has a moulded architrave, a moulded cornice, and a spoked fanlight above a six-panel door. The original 12-pane hornless sash windows are topped with shallow segmental arches that have projecting keyblocks. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
17, Pydar 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- 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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