Penhale House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.
Penhale House
- WRENN ID
- half-turret-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Penhale House, 27, Queen Street, Penzance
- OS grid reference
- SW 473 300
- Coordinates
- 50.11626, -5.53587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penhale House is an early 19th-century building constructed of granite ashlar. It features a cornice and parapet, along with a string course and quoins. The building is two storeys high and has three windows with flat arched openings and recessed architraves. The sashes are fitted with glazing bars, and the ground floor has rusticated architraves. A central doorway is topped with a rectangular fanlight, and the house is positioned at a right angle to the road.
Local climate
Penhale House 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
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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