Exchequer Quay is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1994. Quay.
Exchequer Quay
- WRENN ID
- third-niche-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1994
- Type
- Quay
- Address
- Exchequer Quay, Commercial Road, Penryn
- OS grid reference
- SW 789 342
- Coordinates
- 50.16705, -5.09708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Exchequer Quay consists of quay walls dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. The walls are made of vertically-set, slightly-battered rubble, topped with dressed granite copings. There are also some granite repairs and additions. This structure includes a promontory quay and the quay walls of the inner harbour, extending as far as the Anchor Warehouse.
Local climate
Exchequer Quay 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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