Penscombe Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1989. Cottage.
Penscombe Cross
- WRENN ID
- stranded-panel-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Penscombe Cross, Lezant
- OS grid reference
- SX 343 792
- Coordinates
- 50.58928, -4.34115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penscombe Cross is a cottage dating from the mid to late 18th century, with its eaves raised in the early 19th century and some minor later alterations. The exterior is made of painted roughly coursed slate-stone, with cob used for the raising of the eaves and beneath the corrugated-iron cladding on the left end. The cottage has a half-hipped slate roof and a square plan, standing two storeys tall. There is a 19th-century multi-paned casement window on each floor to the left and right of a central 20th-century lean-to porch. The ground-floor windows have slate drips, while the first-floor windows cut through the original eaves line. A prominent integral end stack with slate drips is located on the left side.
Local climate
Penscombe Cross 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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