No 8 and Attached Forecourt Walls, Steps and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1994. House.

No 8 and Attached Forecourt Walls, Steps and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
brooding-hearth-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1994
Type
House
Address
No 8 and Attached Forecourt Walls, Steps and Gate Piers, Penrose Road, Helston
OS grid reference
SW 660 276
Coordinates
50.10236, -5.27291
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 8 is a small house in a terrace, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of local rubble with granite dressings and has an asbestos slate roof with brick end stacks. The house likely has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high, featuring a symmetrical three-window front. The original windows are 16-pane hornless sashes, and there is a central doorway with an original four-panel door and a plain overlight. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be as unaltered as the exterior. The property includes subsidiary features such as low rubble forecourt walls, a central gateway with round-headed granite monolithic piers, and a flight of dressed granite steps.

Local climate

No 8 and Attached Forecourt Walls, Steps and Gate Piers 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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