Penlore is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Penlore
- WRENN ID
- quartered-alcove-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Penlore, Fore Street, Looe, PL13 2HA
- OS grid reference
- SX 252 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35267, -4.45767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penlore is a house in a row, likely dating from the 17th or 18th century, and incorporating a later shop. The exterior is roughcast render over rubble, with a steep dry slate roof and a dormer window with a 20th-century three-light casement. It has a shallow-depth plan. The house is two storeys high with a three-window front. It features sixteen-pane two-light casement windows. The ground floor includes pilasters and a moulded entablature and fascia relating to a late 19th-century shopfront on the left-hand side, alongside a 20th-century plate-glass window and glazed door with overlight on the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Penlore sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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