Alverton Terrace Trenarren is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. House.
Alverton Terrace Trenarren
- WRENN ID
- dim-hammer-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alverton Terrace Trenarren, 8, Alverton Road, Penzance, TR18 4JH
- OS grid reference
- SW 468 302
- Coordinates
- 50.11816, -5.54203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 8, known as Trenarren, is a building from the 18th or 19th century located on the north side of Alverton Road in Penzance. It is constructed from dressed granite blocks and features a slate roof with gable ends. The building has two storeys and includes three windows, which are sashes set in revealed casings with vertical glazing bars. The central door is framed by a doorcase that has a cornice supported by heavy carved consoles, and there is a narrow rectangular fanlight above the door. Trenarren is part of a group that includes Nos 7 to 14 and Stanley House.
Local climate
Alverton Terrace Trenarren 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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