31, Boscawen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. Town house. 6 related planning applications.
31, Boscawen Street
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-portal-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 31, Boscawen Street, Truro, TR1 2QJ
- OS grid reference
- SW 826 448
- Coordinates
- 50.26354, -5.05034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
31 Boscawen Street is a late 18th-century town house that has been converted into a shop. The building features a front made of freestone ashlar and has a natural slate hipped roof behind a parapet. It has a deep plan with the original entrance hall located on the right side and a late 19th-century shop replacing the former parlour on the left. The structure stands three storeys high and has a four-window front.
On the right, there is a round-headed doorway adorned with three-quarter fluted Doric columns, triglyphs on the entablature, and an open pediment. The doorway includes panelled reveals, a six-panel door, and a spoked fanlight. The building also features rusticated quoins, flat arches with projecting keyblocks above 19th or 20th-century horned sash windows, which have glazing bars at the top of the first-floor sashes, and a moulded parapet with a blind arcade on the frieze.
The late 19th-century shop front consists of two lights and has a doorway on the left with an overlight. It is supported by panelled terminal pilasters with consoles, a moulded cornice above the fascia, and slender turned mullions in the shop window. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
31, Boscawen Street receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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