23, Frances Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1973. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
23, Frances Street
- WRENN ID
- dusk-stronghold-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1973
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 23, Frances Street, Truro, TR1 3DP
- OS grid reference
- SW 822 448
- Coordinates
- 50.26375, -5.05611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 23 Frances Street is a villa, now used as commercial premises, dating from the 1830s. It is possibly designed by Philip Sambell for the developer Josephus Ferris. The building features incised stucco and a dry Delabole slate roof with wide eaves, along with a hipped return on the left and a rendered brick stack on the right. It has a shallow plan with two rooms at the front flanking a central hall, plus two small service wings at the rear. The villa is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front.
The central doorway is elliptically-headed and features rustication, a distyle Doric porch with elliptically arched front and sides, circles to the frieze, and a moulded cornice. The door is from the 20th century and has a traceried fanlight. Additional details include a plinth, terminal fluted pilasters (also found on the one-window front facing Edward Street), and keyblocks. The ground floor has sashes with margin panes, while the upper floor has 16-pane sashes, all of which are horned copies. Inside, the left-hand room retains an original moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornice, but the rest of the interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
23, Frances Street receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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