Penzance House, 36-50 Henderson Street and 1-7 Union Street is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1977. 4 related planning applications.

Penzance House, 36-50 Henderson Street and 1-7 Union Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1977
Address
Penzance House, 36-50 Henderson Street and 1-7 Union Street, FK9 4HS
OS grid reference
NS 791 975
Coordinates
56.15483, -3.94779
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

50 Henderson Street is a building dating from 1880, showcasing a high Victorian style. It is a two-storey structure with an attic, built from ashlar stone on a corner site. The façade facing Henderson Street features eight windows, five of which are bipartite and topped with a cornice. This elevation is framed by Corinthianesque pilasters and has chamfered openings. The ground floor has been modernized for shops, with three keyblocked segment-headed doorways supported by consoled pieces and framed in pilasters.

The stepped frontage on Union Street includes two canted bays and a single pedimented dormer on the left side, while the right side has two canted bays that frame a triplet of stilted segment-headed doorways and a single first-floor window. Above these, there are pedimented dormers, with the outer dormers being bipartite. The centre bay is recessed, featuring a segment-headed doorpiece and an arched first-floor niche with a segmental pediment that masks a change in level. All windows and mullions are pilastered, with sculptured capitals at the ground and first floors. The roofs are slated.

Local climate

Penzance House, 36-50 Henderson Street and 1-7 Union Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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