The Guardian Building is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1972. Town house.
The Guardian Building
- WRENN ID
- waning-mantel-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1972
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- The Guardian Building, 2, Church Square, Bodmin
- OS grid reference
- SX 072 670
- Coordinates
- 50.47157, -4.71768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guardian Building is a town house, likely built in the late 18th century. It features narrow-coursed rubble construction with granite quoins and shallow segmental arches, topped by a dry slate roof with a moulded eaves cornice. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with a five-window range. The first floor has 20th-century twelve-pane horned sash windows, while the ground floor has undergone 20th-century alterations, replacing the original four windows with two large display windows. The central doorway features 20th-century six-panel doors. The interior has not been fully inspected, but it is noted that the right-hand room retains an original moulded cornice, and the left-hand room has an early to mid-19th-century moulded cornice and ceiling band.
Local climate
The Guardian Building sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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