1 and 3, Broad Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Town house. 1 related planning application.
1 and 3, Broad Street
- WRENN ID
- iron-basalt-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 1 and 3, Broad Street, Launceston
- OS grid reference
- SX 332 845
- Coordinates
- 50.63685, -4.36013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 3 Broad Street is a town house with later shops, dating from the early 18th century. The building features slate hanging on a timber frame and has a moulded cornice that creates a pseudo jetty between the upper floors. It has a steep hipped roof covered with dry Delabole slate and projecting eaves. The structure is situated on a shallow-depth corner site and consists of three storeys. The second floor has a four-window range, while the first floor has three windows. Most of the windows are likely original 12-pane hornless sashes with thick glazing bars, except for an early 19th-century sixteen-pane sash in the centre of the first floor and a similar 12-pane sash on the right. The left-hand return features a two-window range, with early to mid-18th-century sashes on the left and blind windows painted on the right. The ground floor includes a large 20th-century corner shop front with a splayed doorway and a smaller 20th-century shop front for No. 3, which has a splayed doorway on the left and a passage leading to a keyed elliptical-arched pilastered doorway. This doorway has a panelled top-glazed door with Moorish-arch-headed panels. The rear of the building is slate hung and has a tall early 19th-century stair window with thin glazing bars.
Inside, there are many 18th-century two-panel doors, some with fielded panels and scratch moulding, and H L hinges. The first-floor left-hand corner chamber features an 18th-century moulded cornice. The early 19th-century open-well open-string stair has a mahogany handrail that is scrolled over the newel.
Local climate
1 and 3, Broad Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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