The Ancient House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House.
The Ancient House
- WRENN ID
- low-nave-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Ancient House, 18, Church Street, Liskeard
- OS grid reference
- SX 253 644
- Coordinates
- 50.45411, -4.46234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ancient House is a house located on Church Street in Liskeard, likely dating from the 17th century. The building is rendered over rubble and features a steeply-pitched asbestos slate roof with a shallow-depth plan. It stands two storeys high with a nearly symmetrical three-window front. The first floor has early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash windows on the left and right, while the ground floor has later horned sashes with glazing bars, including paired sashes in wider openings. A wide open gable-ended porch is supported by 17th-century chamfered granite piers, and there is an early 19th-century six-panel door with glazed top panels. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have been remodeled in the 20th century.
Local climate
The Ancient 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 1998
- No related consent applications matched
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