27 and 28, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Residential. 1 related planning application.
27 and 28, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-pillar-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 27 and 28, Fore Street, Lostwithiel, PL22 0BL
- OS grid reference
- SX 103 597
- Coordinates
- 50.40726, -4.66967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
27 and 28 Fore Street are a pair of attached houses built around 1780, with 19th century and later alterations. They are constructed of rendered stone rubble and have slate roofs with gable ends and ridge stacks. No 27 is on the left and has a passage to the right with the main room to the left, while No 28 has an off-centre entrance to the left, a small room to the left, and a larger main room to the right. Both houses have a double depth plan with service rooms at the rear and a staircase along the party wall. In the mid-19th century, both houses were converted into shops on the ground floor. They are two storeys high with an attic and feature a continuous dentil cornice at the moulded eaves.
No 27 has a mid-19th century shop front with window bays on the left and right, pilasters, and a fascia, along with a central half-glazed door. The first floor has a 12-pane sash window, and the second floor also has a 12-pane sash window. No 28 features a large plate-glass window on the ground floor left (formerly a shop window) with a four-panelled and glazed door with a cornice on brackets. To the right, there is a canted 19th century shop window with six large panes and a half-glazed door with an overlight. The first floor has a four-pane sash window, a six-pane sash window, and two 12-pane sashes under the eaves.
Inside, each house has a straight staircase that runs back to back along the party wall, with one Chinoiserie panel on the balustrade at the first-floor landing. The rest of the stairs have stick balusters. No 27 features two-panelled doors on the second floor, with the front room partitioned at the second floor and re-used fielded shutters on the window.
Local climate
27 and 28, Fore Street 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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