Penowl is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Village house. 1 related planning application.
Penowl
- WRENN ID
- errant-fireplace-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Village house
- Address
- Penowl, 23, St Stephen's Hill, Launceston, PL15 8HN
- OS grid reference
- SX 326 853
- Coordinates
- 50.6436, -4.36788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penowl is a village house, likely dating from the 18th century, with a remodelled front from the mid-19th century. The front is stuccoed and features a tall plinth, pilasters at the ends, and a rusticated door surround; the rest of the front is painted rubble. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in rag slate, with brick end stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and a symmetrical three-window facade. It has mid-19th century windows with chamfered, shouldered-arched lights. The upper floor windows are three-light casements over two-light-plus-sidelights canted bays with moulded cornices. The front door is six-panelled, with the two upper panels added later as glazed panels. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Penowl sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- 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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