2-16, Walsingham Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. Town house. 23 related planning applications.
2-16, Walsingham Place
- WRENN ID
- blind-attic-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 2-16, Walsingham Place, Truro, TR1 2RP
- OS grid reference
- SW 825 447
- Coordinates
- 50.26259, -5.05286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walsingham Place features a planned street of two terraces of small town houses, built in the early 19th century, possibly by Philip Sambell. Many of these houses are now used as offices. The houses at Nos 2-6 retain their original stucco, while Nos 8-16 have had their surfaces stripped to reveal rubble walls with brick dressings. The roofs of Nos 2-16 are covered with dry Delabole slate, except for those with asbestos slate roofs, which have brick end stacks. The houses at Nos 2-6 have projecting eaves supported by wooden brackets.
The two terraces are designed with a shallow depth and built on a curve. Nos 2-6 and 16 each feature two front rooms, a small service room behind one of the front rooms, and a stair hall behind the other. Nos 8-15 consist of four pairs of houses, each with one front room. The buildings are two storeys high, with symmetrical fronts that have a 1:1:1 bay arrangement. Nos 2-6 and each pair of houses have two windows, while No. 16 has three windows. All the houses have original 12-pane hornless sash windows. Pairs of flat pilasters separate the recessed bays, and the doorcases feature lions' heads as corbels supporting flat hoods above panelled doors. Notably, No. 16 has blocked windows on the far right.
The interiors, where inspected, retain much of their original carpentry, joinery, and plasterwork.
Local climate
2-16, Walsingham Place 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 23 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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