Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1949. Town house. 4 related planning applications.
Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- shifting-bailey-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1949
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings, the Square, Penryn, TR10 8JQ
- OS grid reference
- SW 787 343
- Coordinates
- 50.16761, -5.10014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terrace of three town houses, built in the 1770s to resemble a large country house. The houses are constructed from roughly-coursed granite rubble with flat arches, and have a hipped roof covered in dry slate. The central section features a triangular pediment with an oculus and a decorative cornice featuring modillions. Brick stacks are located along the axial and rear lines of the buildings. The houses are arranged with a double-depth plan and are in a late Georgian style.
The front has a symmetrical design with a 2:3:2 bay arrangement. The central bays project forward, topped by the pediment. Original or early 19th-century sixteen-pane hornless sash windows are present in numbers 1 and 2; copies have been added to number 3. Number 2 has a central doorway with fluted columns and a moulded entablature featuring dentils and modillions. The other doorways are pilastered, and number 1 has consoles above them. All doorways have a six-panel door with overlights.
The interior of number 1 retains some original features, including a staircase with rectangular balusters. The interiors of the other houses were not inspected.
The property includes forecourt walls with dressed granite plinths and ornate cast-iron railings to number 2; the remaining railings are of wrought iron.
Local climate
Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 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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- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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