Harbour Masters Office and Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Town house. 6 related planning applications.

Harbour Masters Office and Shop

WRENN ID
vast-corridor-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Town house
Address
Harbour Masters Office and Shop, 44, Arwenack Street, Falmouth, TR11 3JQ
OS grid reference
SW 810 325
Coordinates
50.15235, -5.06583
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Harbour Master's Office and Shop is a town house with a later shop, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from Killas rubble with dressed granite quoins, featuring a first-floor window head course with keyed flat arches, sills, and a mid-floor string course to the right of the shop front. The building has a hipped scantle slate roof and a double-depth plan. It stands two storeys high with a three-window range. The original windows are 12-pane hornless sashes.

On the ground floor, there is a late 19th-century canted shop front on the left, which includes a moulded entablature and a dentilled cornice. To the right, there is a square-headed pilastered doorcase with a round-arched plain fanlight above a later pair of panelled and glazed doors. The rear of the building is symmetrical, also two storeys over a basement with three windows. It retains original 12-pane hornless sashes, except for a later 19th-century canted bay in the centre of the first floor, with masonry details similar to the front elevation.

Inside, there is an original open-well staircase with a closed string, stick balusters, and a ramped handrail, although the rest of the interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Harbour Masters Office and Shop 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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