The Red Lion Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Red Lion Inn
- WRENN ID
- bitter-sandstone-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Red Lion Inn, Fore Street, Penzance, TR18 5JP
- OS grid reference
- SW 463 284
- Coordinates
- 50.10215, -5.5479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion Inn is an 18th-century L-shaped building constructed from granite ashlar. It features flat arches with projecting keystones and has a slate roof with gable ends. The inn is two storeys high and has three windows on the ground floor, which are double-hung sashes, while the first floor has narrow side-lights without glazing bars. There is a central recessed doorway.
Local climate
The Red Lion Inn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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