Lisburne is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villa.
Lisburne
- WRENN ID
- little-baluster-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Lisburne, Lower Warberry Road
- OS grid reference
- SX 926 641
- Coordinates
- 50.46725, -3.51326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lisburne is a villa built around the 1840s, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is plastered and features a slate roof, with stacks that have rendered shafts, platbands, and cornices. The villa has a double-depth main block facing south, with the entrance located on the east side and a service wing at the rear.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window south front, which includes rusticated quoins and deep boxed eaves, along with an eaves band and platband. On the ground floor, the left window is a six-over-nine pane sash, the center window has been converted into a French window, and the right side features a canted bay with six-over-nine pane sashes. There are three bays of a trellis verandah that still exist, topped with a tent roof now covered in felt. The first floor has three windows; the outer ones are twelve-pane sashes with sill blocks and Venetian shutters, while the central sash has been reduced to eight panes.
The right side of the building has undergone changes since 1975. The main block has three bays, with the center bay projecting forward and gabled, featuring a flat-roofed porch with a dentil cornice and a reduced parapet, which is now accessed from the right side. There is a twelve-pane sash on the first floor with a pediment supported by brackets. The left bay has a blind first-floor window and a 20th-century single-storey addition, while the right bay includes twelve-pane sashes and a 20th-century door that has been inserted. The service wing is plainer and set back to the right.
Inside, the villa features joinery and plaster cornices, but the original staircase has been removed.
Local climate
Lisburne receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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