Store at Penzance Shipyard Immediately South of Dry Dock is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 2003. Store. 3 related planning applications.
Store at Penzance Shipyard Immediately South of Dry Dock
- WRENN ID
- last-moat-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 2003
- Type
- Store
- Address
- Store at Penzance Shipyard Immediately South of Dry Dock, Wharf Road
- OS grid reference
- SW 475 300
- Coordinates
- 50.1168, -5.53207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a store located at Penzance Shipyard, immediately south of the dry dock, and dates from around the mid-19th century. It is constructed of granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, and the lower part is painted. The store has a flat roof and is rectangular in shape, featuring a vaulted cellar on the ground floor. There is a small doorway on the northwest side that provides access to the cellar. Inside, the cellar has a painted brick groin vault, which consists of two bays by four bays. This store is part of a notably complete group of harbour buildings at Penzance.
Local climate
Store at Penzance Shipyard Immediately South of Dry Dock 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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