The Willows and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1972. Town house, offices. 3 related planning applications.
The Willows and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- muted-plinth-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1972
- Type
- Town house, offices
- Address
- The Willows and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings, 35, Church Street, Helston, TR13 8NH
- OS grid reference
- SW 658 276
- Coordinates
- 50.10272, -5.27555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a large town house, dating from 1776, which has been altered, heightened, and extended in the 20th century. It is now used as offices. The exterior is faced with Newham stone ashlar, featuring a plinth, sill strings, a mid-floor band, and a moulded cornice to the parapet. A rendered additional storey sits above the parapet, topped with a hipped roof of asbestos slate. The building has a large overall plan, including a 20th-century extension on the right side and a deep wing to the rear left. The original front of the house is two storeys high, with a basement, and is arranged symmetrically with a 1:1:1 bay layout. The central bay contains the entrance, flanked by wide three-light canted bays. Later 19th-century windows with hornless panes are present; the ground floor bays have round-arched central lights, while others feature flat arches. The original doorway is round-arched, with an open pediment, engaged Tuscan columns leading to an entablature, and a petalled fanlight above an altered panelled door. A five-bay extension sits above with windows having 20 panes each. A one-bay, pastiche extension is on the right side, incorporating a letterbox. The rear of the building showcases an original Venetian stair window. Inside, the entrance hall has an original moulded ceiling cornice with dentils, while the stair hall features a moulded ceiling cornice and a Doric frieze to the stair window. The forecourt walls are built with granite ashlar and topped with wrought-iron railings, with close-set bars doubled towards the bottom and arrow-head finials. A basement gate is located on the right side of the forecourt.
Local climate
The Willows and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2023
- 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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