40, Chapel Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. A Early C19 Residential.

40, Chapel Street

WRENN ID
forbidden-solder-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 February 1974
Type
Residential
Period
Early C19
Address
40, Chapel Street, Penzance
OS grid reference
SW 474 300
Coordinates
50.11689, -5.53376
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 40 Chapel Street is an early 19th-century building with a roughcast exterior and a slate roof featuring gable ends. It stands two storeys high and has two sash windows on the front, which do not have glazing bars and are framed by flat architraves. The first-floor windows project slightly and are topped by eaves with gable heads and finials. To the right of the building, there is a doorway that is adorned with a pedimental hood supported by brackets. This building is included in the listing for its group value, as it is part of a collection of listed buildings on the northeast side of Chapel Street.

Local climate

40, 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.

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