Stuart House

Heritage listing

Details LISKEARD SX2564 BARRAS STREET 979-1/5/29 (East side) 23/09/50 Stuart House GV II* House. Late medieval, remodelled and extended in the C17, slightly altered mid C19. Slatehanging on masonry and on studwork to 2nd-floor left of front and at rear of original range, C19 stucco stripped from right-hand return elevation to reveal rubble walls, otherwise rubble walls to C17 wings; dry Delabole slate roofs; brick chimney over external lateral stack at rear left, brick chimney over gable end on right and gable stacks to rear wings reduced to roof level. PLAN: original 2-room and through-passage range at the front with approx 1m thick outside walls: hall on the left, lower end on the right. C17 porch fronting passage; mid C18 stair hall to right of porch, possibly in space of former C17 stair hall which probably replaced a C16 newel stair at its rear; masonry wall to either side of stair hall; pair of attached 3-storey wings added to rear of lower end in the C17 and possibly there were other extensions at the higher end, since removed. 3 storeys; irregular 4-window front range. 3-storey gable-ended C17 porch, left of centre with reused C15 moulded granite doorway with its 2-centred former equilateral-arched head reset in squat position; C19 wrought-iron gate; original 2-centred arched doorway similar to porch doorway, but undisturbed, fronts through-passage within porch and fitted with early C19 panelled door, 2 mid-C19 12-pane hornless sashes over doorway, 2 similar sashes to 2nd floor left of porch, 2 more to stair hall, right of porch and another to 1st floor right; C17 chamfered granite single light to cellar under stairs and 2 similar windows to 2nd-floor return walls of porch; late C18 tripartite sash to middle of wall to 1st floor left over early C20 three-light t

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.