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Bay Tree Hill, LISKEARD, PL14 4BE

B3254 Main thoroughfare in Liskeard old town

Grade II* Listed late medieval house. The house stood on Barrel Street now Barras Street and has a style that suggests late 15th or early 16th century. It is possible Court Records of 1497 that refer to a break in to the Prior of Launceston's House in Barrel Street are about this house. It is equally possible that it was built by the Duchy of Cornwall for a steward or indeed just for a wealthy merchant. Contemporary accounts of the king's journeys record Charles I having stayed here in 1644. The deeds start in 1761 but state that the Joseph Jane mansion house is in Dean Street but the King's Highway is to the west; other details also seem to fit this house and it is unclear where Dean street ended and Barrel Street started. Deeds show a John Sowden purchased the house in 1792 who refers to it in 1794 as 'my new built house' probably referring to the addition of a double gabled wing and other alterations. The house passed to John Carthew in 1829 and it is likely Stuart House was split in two. The Stuart House name first occurs in 1876. In the 20th century the double gabled wing was removed. In 1969 a petrol station was developed in the stable block forecourt. The stable block was pulled down in 1989 to make way for a large filling station and the house was then bought by the Trust that now runs it.

Grade II* listed Stuart House on Barras Street. Largely 17th century with late medieval origins. King Charles I reputedly slept here for several nights in 1644

Grade II listed Hill House and late 19th century bank on Barras Street

Grade II Listed free library built in 1896 by Symons and Sons for John Passmore Edwards (1823-1911). The building was dedicated to Charles Buller (1805-1848) who represented Liskeard in parliament between 1832 and 1848. There is a former caretaker’s cottage at the rear of the library. During the excavations for the library workers found a well defined silver lead load, two feet in width and seven foot from the surface running in a North and South direction. Some very fine stones were taken from it before being sealed over.

The left-hand panel of a fine mosaic mural beside the door to the Co-op supermarket. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/195977

The main shopping street in the town.

Grade II listed former Nat West bank c1870, now disused.

This contains a market, but is not the Market Hall of 1821, which according to Pevsner has a convex front. He calls this one the Town Hall, built in 1859 in the Italianate style.