Egyptian House is a Grade I listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. A 19th century House. 1 related planning application.
Egyptian House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-belfry-sorrel
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Egyptian House, 6 and 7, Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AJ
- OS grid reference
- SW 473 301
- Coordinates
- 50.11779, -5.53627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Egyptian House, located at Nos 6 and 7 on Chapel Street in Penzance, is an early 19th-century building designed in an extravagant Egyptian style. It stands three storeys tall and features three windows. The façade includes battered half-round corded pilasters, and the windows are adorned with glazing bars. Flanking the entrance are lotus bud columns, and above the windows, there are coved cornices. The building is also decorated with two obelisk caryatids and displays a coat of arms crowned by an eagle. A heavy coved crowning cornice completes the design. Nos 5 to 11, which are consecutive, form a group with this building.
Local climate
Egyptian House 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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