53, Chapel Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
53, Chapel Street
- WRENN ID
- long-zinc-sedge
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- C18
- Address
- 53, Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AF
- OS grid reference
- SW 473 301
- Coordinates
- 50.11756, -5.53526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century building, restuccoed in the 19th century, located on the north-east side of Chapel Street in Penzance. It is a three-storey building with three windows. The exterior is stuccoed and features two horizontal string courses, scribed pilasters, and a modillion eaves cornice. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with new tiles. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, each set within a recessed architrave. A well-preserved doorway features two Doric columns, three-quarter height, supporting an open pediment, and a semi-circular fanlight above. The building is in good condition and forms part of a group of listed buildings along Chapel Street.
Local climate
53, Chapel Street 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings