No 79 and Attached Forecourt Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. Town house. 2 related planning applications.

No 79 and Attached Forecourt Railings

WRENN ID
sunken-chimney-holly
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
No 79 and Attached Forecourt Railings, Lemon Street, Truro, TR1 2PN
OS grid reference
SW 826 447
Coordinates
50.26237, -5.0516
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a town house, built around 1809, with attached forecourt railings. It was designed by Robert Blee, a local builder. The front of the house is constructed from local freestone ashlar, with the roof concealed behind a parapet. The building follows a double-depth plan with a single room at the front, and extends over a basement. It has three storeys and a two-window façade. The front features a plinth and a round-arched doorway on the right-hand side, containing a six-panel door and a plain fanlight. Shallow, segmental arches with projecting keyblocks frame the late 19th or early 20th century, horned four-pane sash windows. There’s a moulded cornice below the parapet. The interior was not inspected but is likely to be of interest. Original, simple wrought-iron railings, with urn finials to the stanchions, run along the front of the property on a plinth.

Local climate

No 79 and Attached Forecourt Railings 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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