Guardian House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1981. Town house.
Guardian House
- WRENN ID
- grim-bailey-owl
- 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
- Guardian House, Barras Street, Liskeard
- OS grid reference
- SX 250 644
- Coordinates
- 50.454, -4.46536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Guardian House is a town house that has been converted into an agency. It dates from the early 19th century and may have been refronted from an earlier 18th-century house. The front is finished in stucco, and it has a dry Delabole slate roof with a hipped roof dormer. The building features shared end stacks, with a brick stack on the left and a rendered stack on the right. It has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys plus an attic, with a two-window front. The original windows are 12-pane hornless sashes set within moulded stucco eared architraves, topped with a heavy cornice at the parapet. The ground floor includes a Doric doorway on the left, which is flanked by engaged fluted columns and has a moulded entablature with triglyphs. There is also a wide window opening with a moulded eared architrave and a 20th-century transomed window. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
Guardian 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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