Mousehole Cenotaph is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 2016. Cenotaph. 2 related planning applications.
Mousehole Cenotaph
- WRENN ID
- quiet-porch-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 2016
- Type
- Cenotaph
- Address
- Mousehole Cenotaph, North Cliff, Penzance, TR19 6QX
- OS grid reference
- SW 469 263
- Coordinates
- 50.08344, -5.53905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mousehole Cenotaph is a memorial located at the center of the western arc of the harbour wall, which is also listed as Grade II*. It is positioned on a buttress above a slipway and is made of grey granite sourced from the nearby hamlet of Sheffield. The cenotaph features a tapering obelisk that is rectangular in shape, topped with a carved laurel wreath. Above the obelisk sits a simple representation of a cenotaph.
The memorial has a substantial base adorned with vertical fluting and a carved laurel wreath on each side. The front face of the obelisk bears the inscription: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE THIRTY-SIX WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE AND OF ALL THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 ALSO IN REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES AND THOSE WHO SERVED IN 1939-1945."
In front of the cenotaph, there are two low granite pillars connected by a chain.
Local climate
Mousehole Cenotaph 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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