Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Perran Downs is home to a World Heritage Site: Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
Historic England lists no buildings inside Perran Downs’s built-up area. 17% of its homes were built before 1919.
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
World Heritage
| Cornwall and West Devon Mining LandscapeUNESCO World Heritage Site, partly or wholly inside the town |
Listed buildings in the places around Perran Downs
Perran Downs in brief
Part of Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a World Heritage Site, lies in Perran Downs. The rest is about typical: 17% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Perran Downs’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Perran Downs?
Historic England lists no buildings inside Perran Downs’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary). Listed buildings nearby may sit just outside it.
Is Perran Downs a World Heritage Site?
Perran Downs is home to part or all of Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, inscribed by UNESCO.
How old are the homes in Perran Downs?
17% of homes were built before 1919 and 21% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Perran Downs has no History Grade.
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Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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