Nos 14 and 15 and Attached Forecourt Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. Town houses. 4 related planning applications.
Nos 14 and 15 and Attached Forecourt Railings
- WRENN ID
- guardian-latch-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- Town houses
- Address
- Nos 14 and 15 and Attached Forecourt Railings, Lemon Street, Truro, TR1 2LS
- OS grid reference
- SW 826 447
- Coordinates
- 50.26219, -5.05125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 14 and 15 are a pair of town houses built around 1798 for John Webb, a merchant. The houses feature granite ashlar at the basement level, with local freestone ashlar above, and are topped with an asbestos slate roof that has three hipped dormers set behind a parapet and brick end stacks. The design follows a double-depth plan and consists of two storeys plus an attic over the basement, presenting a symmetrical three-window front. Notable architectural details include rusticated quoins, a string course, and a parapet cornice. The central entrance is marked by a pair of round-headed doorways within an open wooden Doric porch that has mutules on the cornice. The doors are five-panel with plain fanlights, and there are 20th-century horned 12-pane sash windows beneath shallow segmental arches with projecting key blocks. The original panelled doors lead to the basements. Although the interior was not inspected, it is likely to be of interest. The forecourt features original granite steps that are complemented by original wrought-iron railings and additional granite steps leading down to the basement.
Local climate
Nos 14 and 15 and Attached Forecourt Railings 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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- Radon risk assessment
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