The Union Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. A Georgian Hotel. 6 related planning applications.
The Union Hotel
- WRENN ID
- spare-cloister-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Hotel
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Union Hotel, Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AE
- OS grid reference
- SW 473 302
- Coordinates
- 50.11801, -5.5359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Union Hotel is an early 19th-century building located on Chapel Street in Penzance. It features a stucco exterior with a plain ground floor, above which are flat Ionic pilasters that are fluted. The building stands three storeys high and has six windows, two of which are blocked. The second-floor windows have sill aprons, and the sashes include glazing bars. The ground floor windows are set in slight recesses. To the right, there is a wide recessed doorway that was originally a carriageway.
Inside, the hotel boasts a fine Assembly Room dating from 1791, which was the site of the first public announcement of the victory at Trafalgar. This large room measures over 23 feet high and features a vaulted ceiling with a dentilled cornice. There is a balustraded gallery with an elliptical arch, a fireplace supported by Tuscan columns, and large semi-circular headed windows. The hotel also has a Regency staircase and an Art Nouveau bar at the rear.
All listed buildings on the northeast side of Chapel Street form a group.
Local climate
The Union 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 — 6 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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