Penroses is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1989. Dwelling. 4 related planning applications.
Penroses
- WRENN ID
- deep-rafter-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1989
- Type
- Dwelling
- Address
- Penroses, Bodmin Street, Holsworthy, EX22 6BB
- OS grid reference
- SS 342 036
- Coordinates
- 50.80908, -4.35334
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penroses is a mid-19th century dwelling, now used as a doctor's surgery. It comprises a main parallel range with a service wing at the rear. The front elevation has two storeys and three bays, with a rendered finish simulating ashlar, and a roughcast right return. The roof is slate, with roughcast stacks on the gable ends topped with moulded caps. Tripartite 16-pane sash windows are fitted with horns. A central square-headed door opening is topped by console brackets supporting a moulded entablature. The door itself is of two-panel design with glazed upper panels, and chamfered arrises to the lower panels. A plaque on the right-hand bay dates to 1976 and indicates that the house was occupied by the Reverend S.S. Wesley when he composed ‘An Air on the Holsworthy Bells’. This piece was composed specifically for the carillon of the Church of St Peter and St Paul. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Penroses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- 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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