St Decumans and Railings to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1953. House.

St Decumans and Railings to Front

WRENN ID
buried-entrance-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 April 1953
Type
House
Address
St Decumans and Railings to Front, 2, New Street, Padstow
OS grid reference
SW 918 753
Coordinates
50.54076, -4.93846
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Decumans is a house with railings at the front, built around the late 18th century. It features a painted brick front in an irregular English bond and a cement washed scantle slate roof, which has a gable end on the left and a hipped end on the right.

The building has a double depth plan with a central entrance and two main rooms at the front, heated by end stacks, while shallow service rooms are located at the rear. The ground slopes steeply to the right, providing a separate entrance to the basement.

The house is two storeys high, with a basement and attic, and has a regular three-window front. A flight of steps leads up to the central entrance, which has a late 18th-century panelled door and an original doorcase with fluted pilasters. To the left of the entrance is a blind window, and to the right is a 19th-century 12-pane sash window. Below the main entrance is the basement, which features an 18th or early 19th-century panelled door and a 20th-century window to the right. On the first floor, there are three original hornless 12-pane sash windows. The attic includes two full hipped dormers with 19th-century two-light casements and fleur-de-lys ridge tiles. The front of the property is enclosed by 19th-century iron railings.

Local climate

St Decumans and Railings to Front sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% 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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