Trinity House Depot is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Depot. 7 related planning applications.

Trinity House Depot

WRENN ID
rusted-chimney-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 February 1974
Type
Depot
Address
Trinity House Depot, Wharf Road, Penzance, TR18 4BN
OS grid reference
SW 476 300
Coordinates
50.11636, -5.53137
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Trinity House Depot is an early 19th-century building located on Penzance Wharf Road. It features a stuccoed exterior and a slate hipped roof with wide eaves. The structure is two storeys tall and has four sash windows with glazing bars. At the ends of the first floor, there are two splayed bay windows, while the ground floor has segmental headed windows. A granite string course and long and short quoins add to its architectural detail.

Local climate

Trinity House Depot 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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