10 and 12, St Thomas Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Town house. 1 related planning application.
10 and 12, St Thomas Street
- WRENN ID
- patient-oriel-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 10 and 12, St Thomas Street, Penryn, TR10 8JN
- OS grid reference
- SW 785 343
- Coordinates
- 50.16757, -5.10197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of town houses, originally one dwelling, later divided and with shops incorporated. The building dates back to the 17th century, with significant remodelling in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The exterior is constructed of rubble, with painted rubble sections, timber lintels, and a steep scantle slate roof with sprocketed front eaves. There's a brick lateral stack, one on the left and an end stack at the rear of number 10, plus a cast-iron ogee gutter.
The structure comprises an early single-depth range at the front, with an early 19th-century wing behind number 12 and a late 17th-century wing at a right angle behind number 10. The front facade presents an overall three-window arrangement. The first floor has a pair of hornless sash windows flanking an early 19th-century casement window with twenty-four panes, a central opening light. Copies of sash windows from the 20th century fill the ground floor openings on the left. A small-paned bowed shop window with pilasters and a moulded entablature is situated to the left of number 10. A repaired, similar window, also with a pedimented doorway (centrally positioned across the entire front), is in the centre of number 12, leading to a 20th-century panelled door. A 20th-century door is set in the opening of a former wide window on the right.
Inside number 10, several original features have been preserved. These include a late 17th-century two-panel scratch-moulded door, late 17th or 18th-century floor and roof structures, a heavy doorframe leading from a rear room to the courtyard, some dado panelling, and an early 19th-century straight-flight staircase. Number 12 was not inspected.
Local climate
10 and 12, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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