Sunny Corner House, Garden Area Wall and Quay is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1999. House. 2 related planning applications.

Sunny Corner House, Garden Area Wall and Quay

WRENN ID
eastward-pinnacle-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1999
Type
House
Address
Sunny Corner House, Garden Area Wall and Quay, Malpas Road, Truro, TR1 1SG
OS grid reference
SW 836 432
Coordinates
50.24976, -5.03613
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sunny Corner House stands on a river quay, dating to the 1830s. The house is constructed of stone rubble with brick window and doorway arches, painted at the back and sides. It has a pyramidal hipped slate roof with deep eaves and a brick stack on the south side.

The house follows a square, double-depth plan. The two principal front rooms on the east front and the central entrance have been combined into one room. Service rooms are located at the rear, with a kitchen to the southwest and an outshut on the side. A 20th-century porch has been added to the north side, alongside a side entrance.

The east front is symmetrical, with three bays. The windows have cambered brick arches and slate sills, now with 20th-century replacement frames. A blocked central doorway features a semi-circular brick arch above which is a large, plastered roundel with a moulded architrave. An outshut is located on the south return, and a 20th-century porch is on the north side with a round-arched inner doorway and a 19th-century panelled door. At the rear (west), a wide ground floor window and a first-floor window on the right have cambered brick arches, while a window to the left on the first floor has a lintel.

The interior retains original joinery, including panelled doors, simple fireplaces, and a staircase with stick balusters, a moulded string, and handrail.

The quay is constructed of vertically bedded slate, with the west end built of large dressed granite blocks. A stone garden area wall, built in front of and to the side of the house, borders the quay.

The house was likely built in connection with navigation on the Truro River and the port of Truro.

Local climate

Sunny Corner House, Garden Area Wall and Quay receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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