The Great House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1981. Town house. 1 related planning application.
The Great House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-facade-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1981
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- The Great House, Baytree Hill, Liskeard, PL14 4BG
- OS grid reference
- SX 251 644
- Coordinates
- 50.45374, -4.46391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great House is a town house with a shop, built in the mid-19th century on the site of a 16th-century building. It features stucco on studwork and an asbestos slate roof with deep eaves at the front, along with cast-iron ogee gutters. The building has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with a three-window range. The first and second floors have 4-pane hornless sash windows. There is a granite plinth and a band over the first floor, with pilaster strips flanking the ground-floor quoin rustications above. The ground floor includes a wide shop front, which may be original, with a moulded fascia supported by four Doric pilasters. It has a double shop window on the right, a doorway, and another window on the left. The first floor features recessed window surrounds, while the second floor has moulded architraves, with both upper floors having sills on brackets. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Great House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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