16, St Nicholas Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Shop. 2 related planning applications.
16, St Nicholas Street
- WRENN ID
- gilded-zinc-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1993
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 16, St Nicholas Street, Truro, TR1 2RW
- OS grid reference
- SW 825 448
- Coordinates
- 50.26331, -5.05237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 16 St Nicholas Street is a shop with accommodation and store rooms above, designed by James Hicks of Redruth for Messrs Criddle and Smith shortly before 1884. The building is constructed of brick with granite dressings and features a roof that is hidden behind a parapet. It has a deep rectangular plan and is designed in an Italianate style with early Gothic details. The structure consists of four storeys and three bays.
The double shop front is flanked by pilasters leading to a moulded entablature. The first and second floors are dominated by a wide full-height central arch, which is flanked by narrow arches supported by giant fluted pilasters with stiff-leaf foliate capitals. Within these arches, there are two tiers of windows, including a central canted oriel window on the first floor. The central bay features windows with double transoms and coloured glass above the top transoms, while the other windows are horned sashes. A bold cornice runs beneath the fourth floor or attic storey, which has five windows under keyed round arches with pilasters in between, supporting the parapet entablature that has a turned balustrade above. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
16, St Nicholas Street receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- 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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