Carvedras House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.

Carvedras House

WRENN ID
seventh-vestry-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1973
Type
House
Address
Carvedras House, St George's Road, Truro, TR1 3NR
OS grid reference
SW 820 449
Coordinates
50.26454, -5.0599
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Carvedras House is a house that now serves as a vicarage, built in the early 19th century. It features stuccoed walls and a hipped roof made of grouted scantle slate, with projecting eaves and stuccoed stacks on the side walls. The building has a double-depth plan, consisting of two front reception rooms on either side of a central entrance hall. It is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front. The house has a plinth and a mid-floor band, and the central doorway includes a panelled door with an overlight and a distyle porch supported by square columns and an entablature. The ground-floor openings have original 16-pane hornless sash windows set within flat architraves, topped with moulded hoods on consoles.

Inside, Carvedras House retains much of its original carpentry, joinery, and plasterwork, including panelled doors and shutters, an open-well open-string staircase with a mahogany handrail over a scrolled newel, and moulded plaster cornices in the front rooms. In the garden next to the church, there is a well that served the former Dominican Friary from 1259 to 1538.

Local climate

Carvedras House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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