4, Abbey Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
4, Abbey Street
- WRENN ID
- buried-panel-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4, Abbey Street, Penzance, TR18 2JZ
- OS grid reference
- SW 474 301
- Coordinates
- 50.11777, -5.53396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Abbey Street is an early 19th-century building constructed of stucco. It has two storeys and features three sash windows with glazing bars. The central doorway is topped by a rectangular fanlight and is sheltered by a shallow wooden trellis porch. The building has a slate hipped roof with wide eaves. To the right, there is a wing that is also two storeys high, with one window and a doorway that has a simple hood. No. 4 Abbey Street is part of a group that includes Nos. 20 to 24 New Street.
Local climate
4, Abbey Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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