4, Lower Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Town house. 2 related planning applications.
4, Lower Market Square
- WRENN ID
- strange-mortar-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 4, Lower Market Square, Penryn, TR10 8BG
- OS grid reference
- SW 785 343
- Coordinates
- 50.16801, -5.10198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century town house, altered in the mid-19th century, located on Lower Market Square in Penryn. The house is constructed of granite ashlar with a plinth, and features keyed flat arches above the second-floor windows and the doorway. It has a dry slate roof with projecting front eaves. The building follows a double-depth plan. The symmetrical front elevation has three storeys and two windows. The second floor has 16-pane sash windows, and two-storey canted bays with similar sashes flank the central doorway, which has a four-pane top-glazed door. The rear of the house has a three-window front across two storeys and a basement, with deep eaves. It features oak lintels above 20th-century casement windows and a central 20th-century door. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
4, Lower Market Square 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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