Former Penzance lifeboat house is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Former lifeboat house. 2 related planning applications.
Former Penzance lifeboat house
- WRENN ID
- carved-frieze-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Former lifeboat house
- Address
- Former Penzance lifeboat house, Wharf Road
- OS grid reference
- SW 474 302
- Coordinates
- 50.11862, -5.53358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Penzance lifeboat house, built in 1884, is now used for commercial purposes. It is constructed from square coursed granite with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building is a single-storey rectangular structure with modern double doors beneath a replaced lintel. Above the door, there is a three-light oriel window with granite mullions, flanked by terracotta roundels displaying the RNLI crest. The gable is coped with kneelers and has an arched bellcote topped with a ball finial. The long side of the building has three square-headed small-paned windows. The lifeboat was housed in Penzance from 1803 to 1917, and this building specifically from 1885 to 1917, making it one of the best-preserved examples in Cornwall.
Local climate
Former Penzance lifeboat 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
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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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