The Famous Barrel Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Public house.
The Famous Barrel Public House
- WRENN ID
- young-pavement-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Famous Barrel Public House, Penryn
- OS grid reference
- SW 786 341
- Coordinates
- 50.16629, -5.10088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Famous Barrel Public House is a public house that likely dates from the late 18th century. It features granite and other rubble walls, topped with a hipped asbestos slate roof and tall brick end stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with a three-window range. The windows include 20th-century three-light casements on the left and right, with narrower openings containing two-light casements to the right of the middle. The first-floor windows are positioned tight under the eaves, and the ground-floor openings are spanned by segmental brick arches. There is a doorway to the left of the middle, which has a 20th-century door. Inside, partitions have been removed and the walls stripped of plaster to reveal a granite fireplace on the left, along with original ceiling joists that still have nails from former plaster ceilings.
Local climate
The Famous Barrel Public House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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