Admiral Benbow Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1970. Restaurant. 1 related planning application.
Admiral Benbow Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- watchful-merlon-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1970
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- Admiral Benbow Restaurant, 46, Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AF
- OS grid reference
- SW 474 301
- Coordinates
- 50.11719, -5.53426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Admiral Benbow Restaurant, located at 40 Chapel Street in Penzance, is an 18th-century building constructed from whitened granite rubble with raised pointing. It features a steep hipped roof covered in tarred slates and stands two storeys tall. The building has three windows, with modern sash windows featuring small panes on the upper floor and three modern fixed windows with small panes on the ground floor. Above the doorway, there is a decorative fascia board for the Admiral Benbow, which dates from 1959. This restaurant is part of a group of listed buildings on the northeast side of Chapel Street.
Local climate
Admiral Benbow Restaurant 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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