The Abbey Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
The Abbey Hotel
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-chapel-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Abbey Hotel, Abbey Street, Penzance, TR18 4AR
- OS grid reference
- SW 474 301
- Coordinates
- 50.11744, -5.53403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Abbey Hotel is an early 19th-century front added to a building from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof with panelled eaves soffit. The hotel is two storeys high and has seven windows, which are sashes with intersecting glazing bars. The ground floor windows have label moulds. There is a central porch projection with a Gothic doorway that includes Renaissance moulds. Inside, there is a room with 17th or 18th-century panelling and a notable staircase that has turned balusters, a square newel, and a moulded string. The Abbey Hotel, along with Nos 1 and 2, forms a group.
Local climate
The Abbey Hotel 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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