Cliffside the Copper Samover is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1970. Commercial.

Cliffside the Copper Samover

WRENN ID
moated-merlon-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 April 1970
Type
Commercial
Address
Cliffside the Copper Samover, Fore Street, Penzance
OS grid reference
SW 463 285
Coordinates
50.10253, -5.54843
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cliffside and The Copper Samover is an 18th-century building located on the southwest side of Newlyn Trewaveneth Street. The front faces Boase Street and features whitened granite and plaster. It is two storeys high, with the right-hand section jettied and incorporating two small modern bowed shop windows. The seafront side has two large modern square bays on the first floor, along with two additional modern bowed shop windows.

Local climate

Cliffside the Copper Samover 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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