12A, MORRAB PLACE (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1970. Terrace of houses.
12A, MORRAB PLACE (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- waiting-belfry-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1970
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- 12A, MORRAB PLACE (See details for further address information), 17, Penzance
- OS grid reference
- SW 471 300
- Coordinates
- 50.11684, -5.53822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 12A is part of an early to mid 19th century terrace in Morrab Place, Penzance. This three-storey building is stuccoed and built in pairs, featuring two windows on each floor. The adjacent houses, Nos 14 and 15, are pebble-dashed and have sash windows, while Nos 12 and 13 have modern casements with moulded or recessed architraves. Nos 14 and 15 also feature Doric porches and a rusticated ground floor. The buildings at Nos 16 and 17 have semi-arched doorways. The terrace has slate roofs with wide eaves and dormers.
No 12A, located at the rear of No 12, is roughcast with a slate roof that has a hipped end. It is two storeys tall with two windows; the first floor has large sashes with glazing bars, and the ground floor has two modern casements. There is a central doorway with a flat pilastered doorcase and entablature, along with a narrow rectangular fanlight. This building is included for its group value with Nos 1 to 7 and Nos 10 to 17, which form a cohesive architectural group.
Local climate
12A, MORRAB PLACE (See details for further address information) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings