Westbourne House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1981. House. 5 related planning applications.
Westbourne House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- south-chapel-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Westbourne House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings, West Street, Liskeard
- OS grid reference
- SX 249 646
- Coordinates
- 50.45555, -4.4672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westbourne House is a large suburban house built in 1816, possibly designed by J. Foulston for N.W. Penrose, a solicitor. It was refronted in 1860 by Henry Rice. The house features incised stucco with stone dressings and a dry Delabole slate hipped roof with projecting eaves supported by wooden brackets. The stuccoed stacks have cornices, and there are moulded gutters. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys tall with a four-window range on the south garden front.
The original large-paned sashes are hornless and set within stone surrounds, with segmental-arched lights on the ground floor. The left and right bays have 4-pane sashes above 2-light windows, each topped with triangular pediments featuring mutules on the cornices. The central bays have stepped tripartite sashes above canted 4-light segmental-arched stone bay windows, which are adorned with balustraded parapets and similar cornices, and column mullions capped with Corinthian or Ionic details.
The original north entrance front has a 1:3:1 bay arrangement, featuring a central porch with blind sidelights, roundels on the panelled frieze, and railings above the parapet. The doorcase includes panelled sides and a traceried fanlight, leading to a four-panel door with fielded panels. The projecting end bays have ground-floor sashes with segmental-arched recessed panels, and the original horned sashes are present. To the right of the door over the porch is a stair sash with coloured glass and margin panes.
Inside, the porch has a ribbed vault and an egg-and-dart cornice in the vestibule. The inner doors feature a traceried fanlight with Art Nouveau glazed panels. The open-well open-string staircase has a mahogany handrail that is scrolled over the newel, along with moulded and carved cornices and additional Art Nouveau details.
The property also includes forecourt walls topped with railings that have spearhead finials over bars and urns on stanchions.
Local climate
Westbourne House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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