Dowty's is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Chapel. 4 related planning applications.
Dowty's
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-pedestal-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1993
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Dowty's, Kenwyn Street, Truro, TR1 3DJ
- OS grid reference
- SW 824 448
- Coordinates
- 50.26326, -5.0541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dowty's is a Nonconformist (Primitive Methodist) chapel, built in 1878, which later became the City Mission and is now used as a shop. The building is constructed of dressed granite brought to course and features steep Delabole slate roofs with a coped gable at the front. It has a rectangular single-vessel plan and is designed in the Gothic style. The symmetrical south entrance front includes a central tall buttressed gable end flanked by lean-tos that resemble aisles with splayed corners. There is a shallow central gabled porch with a pointed-arched doorway, flanked by lancet windows, a moulded string, a rose window above the porch, and three stepped lights in the gable. The buttresses are topped with tall pinnacles. The side walls are illuminated by tall lancets, while the main lighting comes from long wooden clerestorey windows with pointed-arched lights. Inside, the chapel features an arch-braced roof structure with laminated braces, and the clerestorey windows are carried over the roof structure.
Local climate
Dowty's 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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