Bath House and Well Head East of Penrose Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1994. Bath house.
Bath House and Well Head East of Penrose Manor House
- WRENN ID
- cold-mullion-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1994
- Type
- Bath house
- Address
- Bath House and Well Head East of Penrose Manor House, Penrose Hill, Porthleven
- OS grid reference
- SW 641 259
- Coordinates
- 50.08642, -5.29818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bath house, built in 1840 for John Rogers, is located east of Penrose Manor House in Helston. It features incised render with pebbledash and granite dressings, including an ashlar plinth and copings with moulded kneelers, as well as window and door dressings. The dry slate roof has a rear gable stack topped with an octagonal pot. The building has a single-cell plan with a sunken bath on the right and is designed in the Tudor Gothic style. The front has a central four-centred arched doorway with a 20th-century copy of a three-panel studded door and a slit window above it. Each side wall has a two-light mullioned window, all with square hoodmoulds.
Inside, the walls are incised plaster, and the floor is laid with red quarry tiles. The roof features scissor trusses with bowtell-moulded purlins, and there is a four-centred arched cast-iron grate. Elvan steps lead down to the slate-lined bath. At the rear, there is a rounded well head surrounded by a rubble wall and capped with slate.
Local climate
Bath House and Well Head East of Penrose Manor House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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