Davy Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Monument. 2 related planning applications.
Davy Monument
- WRENN ID
- small-tracery-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Davy Monument, Market Place, Penzance, TR18 2JG
- OS grid reference
- SW 472 303
- Coordinates
- 50.11891, -5.53641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Davy Monument is a statue located in Penzance Market Place. It commemorates Sir Humphry Davy, who lived from 1778 to 1829. Davy was the President of the Royal Society, the founder of the Zoological Society, the inventor of the Miner's Lamp, and the first agricultural chemist. The statue is made of stone and is larger than life-size. It stands on a square plinth with a cornice, which is set on a rough granite base.
Local climate
Davy Monument 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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