26 and 28, St Thomas Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1994. Town house.

26 and 28, St Thomas Street

WRENN ID
riven-brass-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1994
Type
Town house
Address
26 and 28, St Thomas Street, Penryn
OS grid reference
SW 785 342
Coordinates
50.16713, -5.1017
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

26 and 28 St Thomas Street are two townhouses, which may have originally been one house, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. The front is rendered on a rubble base and features a string course at the level of the first-floor meeting rail. The building has a steep asbestos slate roof with projecting front eaves over a moulded cornice, and a brick stack is located on the left side. The plan is shallow in depth with a rear wing on the left.

The houses are three storeys high and have a three-window range on the second floor. There is a blocked window on the second floor to the left, and the early 19th-century windows include sixteen-pane hornless sashes. On the first floor, there are two early to mid-19th-century twelve-pane sashes; the left-hand window is above a pair of 20th-century copy sashes, while the other window is above a single four-pane horned sash. There are two doorways, including a central open doorway (through-passage) between the windows and another doorway at the far left, both featuring 20th-century doors.

On the second floor towards the left, there is an incised stone that possibly comes from the former Glasney College, inscribed with the Lord's Prayer. The interior was noted in 1980 to have many 18th-century features, including two-panel doors, and it presumably retains an 18th-century pegged roof structure.

Local climate

26 and 28, St Thomas Street receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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