Kitchen Garden Walls to Penrose Manor House, Attached to Laundry Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1994. Garden walls.

Kitchen Garden Walls to Penrose Manor House, Attached to Laundry Cottages

WRENN ID
gentle-outpost-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1994
Type
Garden walls
OS grid reference
SW 641 256
Coordinates
50.0844, -5.29796
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The kitchen garden walls at Penrose Manor House, which are attached to the Laundry Cottages, date from the 18th century or early 19th century. They were built for John Rogers and underwent some remodelling and rebuilding in the late 19th century. The walls are constructed of Killas rubble with some granite dressings and feature scantle slate copings topped with red clay ridge tiles. They are tall and surround two linked square enclosures, with buttresses on the outside faces.

Local climate

Kitchen Garden Walls to Penrose Manor House, Attached to Laundry Cottages receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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