Nos 3 and 4 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Villa. 7 related planning applications.

Nos 3 and 4 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings

WRENN ID
lapsed-soffit-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1993
Type
Villa
Address
Nos 3 and 4 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings, Strangways Villas, Truro, TR1 2PA
OS grid reference
SW 825 444
Coordinates
50.25949, -5.05167
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Nos. 3 and 4 are a pair of semi-detached villas built in the mid-19th century, featuring basement forecourt walls and railings. The villas are constructed of stucco with channelled rustication on the ground floor and terminal quoin strips. They have Delabole slate hipped roofs with two roof dormers at the front, wide eaves, a central axial stack, and cast-iron ogee gutters. The design is a double-depth pair with mirror-image plans, standing two storeys plus attics over basements, and a symmetrical four-window range on the first floor.

The basement includes panelled doors with overlights flanking canted bay windows that have glazing-bar sashes. There are consoles beneath the cornices of the canted ground-floor bay windows, which feature horned sashes and moulded cornices leading to openwork parapets. Keyed segmental arches are present over horned four-pane sashes set in eared and lugged architraves. The two gabled roof dormers add to the architectural interest. Small two-storey wings are set back on either side, each with a front featuring a round-arched sash window with marginal panes above.

While the interiors have not been inspected, they are likely to be of interest. The forecourt retaining walls are topped with iron railings that have fleur-de-lis finials, along with similar gates.

Local climate

Nos 3 and 4 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 7 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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