II*Church · listed 1950St Martin's ChurchOn the list as Parish Church of St MartinPhoto: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0
Parish Church of St Martin · Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0AHistory Grade
History of Liskeard · Historic England
167 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Liskeard’s built-up area, 153 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 8 of its listed buildings and 4 old views of the town. 18% of its homes were built before 1919. Liskeard grades A for history: #15 of 35 in Cornwall.
Listed buildings
167
153 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
5
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
18%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Liskeard in 12 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers to Earlier ViaductGrade II* listed
GuildhallGrade II* listed
Warehouse (The Furniture Loft)Grade II listed
Fountain HotelGrade II listed
Wesley Methodist ChurchGrade II listed+7See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
Through time
Liskeard from 1920 to 1925
4 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1920s
c. 1925
Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Liskeard’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade II*Scheduled monument
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 7neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 46% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
167 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I5 Grade II*162 Grade II
Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).
Grade II*
The 5 Grade II* listed buildings in Liskeard
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*Walls & gates · listed 1981Cornwall Railway viaductsOn the list as Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers to Earlier ViaductPhoto: Geof Sheppard · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*Public · listed 1981GuildhallPhoto: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 1981Tencreek CrossOn the list as Cross Adjacent to South East Corner of Church of St MartinPhoto: Alan Rosevear · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*House · listed 1950Stuart HousePhoto: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0
Historic streets
Fore Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Fore Street13 listed
Church Street11 listed
Dean Street10 listed
West Street9 listed
Pike Street8 listed
Market Street5 listed
Castle Street4 listed
Higher Lux Street4 listed
Lower Lux Street4 listed
Baytree Hill3 listed
Of the 167 entries, 78 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Liskeard’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas114
Walls, gates & bridges18
Churches, chapels & priories11
Inns, shops & warehouses10
Public & civic buildings7
Memorials, crosses & tombs4
Street furniture3
114 entries (68%) are houses, terraces and villas. 11 are churches, chapels and priories.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
162 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
The first 150 of 162 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barclays BankBeech LawnBelle Vue Bellevue HouseBolventorBosenvor and Attached WallCastle HouseChapel CottageCounty Branch LibraryCross Adjacent to North West Corner of Church of St MartinDaniel's Cottage, Attached Walls and Earth Closet Wadeland House, Attached Walls and Earth ClosetDean MeadowDean TerraceDean TerraceDenmore HouseFitze Tomb Approximately 10 Metres East of Church of St MartinForecourt Lodges to Lamellion Hospital and Attached GatesForester's HallFormer National School and attached yard wall and railingsFountainFountain HotelFront Garden Wall of Pendean House (Pendean House Not Included)Gate Piers and Screen Walls to Wadeland HouseGate and Attached Walls to South East of Church of St MartinGlencross Tomb Approximately 15 Metres South of Church of St MartinGranite drinking-trough outside Liskeard Railway StationGraylandsGuardian HouseHawke Monument South of Westbourne HouseHighwood HouseHill House Hammond Insurance ServicesHorse TroughHouse Attached to North of No 3 Nos 3 and 4 and House Attached to North of No 3InversnaidKilmar House and Attached Forecourt RailingsKnight Tomb Approximately 6 Metres North West of Church of St MartinLimekilnLiskerrit HouseLloyds BankLuxtowe HouseLych Gate, Walls, Horse Trough and Mounting Block North of Church of St MartinLyne Family Vault to South East of Church of St MartinMasonic HallMidland BankMilestone at Sx 2445 6325, North East of Lodge Hill (Not Included)Milestone to South of Nos 3 and 4 Dean TerraceNational Westminster BankNationwide Building SocietyNew Liston TregantleNo 29 and Attached Walls to SouthNo 3 and Attached WallNos 6 and 7 and Attached OutbuildingOakdeanParade House and Attached Wall and RailingsPound HousePremises of John Anne the Florist Premises of John Anne the Florist and Rapson's Butchers Premises of Rapson's ButchersPremises of L Couch and Attached Garden WallPremises of Lr Muchmore Time and MotionRailings and wall to front of 1-6 and 7 (including 7a and 7b), Varley TerraceRashleigh HouseRawle Tomb Approximately 25 Metres South East of Church of St MartinRaymonte HouseRosedean HouseSchoolroom with Shop Attached to Wesley Methodist ChurchSouth Gate and Flanking Walls South of Church of St MartinSwan Cottage, At Rear of Nos 7 and 8 (Not Included) Windsor Cottage and Swan Cottage, At Rear of Nos 7 and 8 (Not Included) Windsor Cottage, At Rear of Nos 7 and 8 (Not Included)Tavernan Carow Public HouseThe Albion Public HouseThe Ancient HouseThe Barley Sheaf Public HouseThe Great HouseThe Old Toll HouseThe PipewellThe White Horse Public HouseTremeddan CourtVarley TerraceWadham HouseWall Extending Approximately 60 Metres North East of No 9 (Not Included)War MemorialWarehouse (The Furniture Loft)Webb's HotelWesley Methodist ChurchWest Gate of Church of St Martin and Attached WallsWestbourne House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings1 and 3, Castle Street1 and 8, Windsor Place1, Church Street1, Market Street1, West Street10, Castle Street10, Market Street10, Pike Street11, 11A and 15-23 (Odd)11, Church Street11, Fore Street11, Market Street11, West Street12 and 14, Fore Street12, Castle Street13 and 13A, Dean Street13 and 15, Church Street13 and 15, Fore Street13, Higher Lux Street13, West Street15, Dean Street15, Lower Lux Street16 and 18, Dean Street16, Fore Street17 and 19, West Street17, Baytree Hill17, Dean Street17, Lower Lux Street18, Fore Street18, Pike Street19 and 21, Dean Street19, Fore Street2, Cannon Hill2, Church Street2, Pike Street2, The Parade20, Dean Street20, Fore Street20, Lower Lux Street21 and 23, Fore Street21, Lower Lux Street21, West Street22, Church Street22, Fore Street23, Church Street23, Dean Street24, Church Street25, Dean Street25, Fore Street26 and 28, Church Street27, Dean Street27, Higher Lux Street3, Baytree Hill3, Fore Street3, Higher Lux Street30, Higher Lux Street31, Church Street4 and 6, Fore Street4, Cannon Hill4, Castle Street4, Church Street4, Pike Street4, West Street5 and 7, Pike Street6, Baytree Hill6, Dean Street6, Pike Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 11% of Liskeard
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Liskeard 197732 ha
32 hain conservation areas, of 302 ha inside the built-up area.
155 of the 167 listed buildings stand in one.
Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
How the list grew
75 of Liskeard’s 167 listed buildings were added in 1993
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1993 · 751981 · 641950 · 22
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 22 entries were listed in 1950. 75 came in 1993. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
2 scheduled monuments
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
History Grade
Liskeard grades A for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (176 points, 161 per 10,000 residents)More than 87% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (18%)More than 55% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Born here
8 notable people born in Liskeard before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Frances Notley
John Bellows
William Henry Sowden
Thomas Davey
Richard Wadge
Ernest Olver
Richard Marsh Crofton
Philip King Enright
1800182518501875190019251950
William Henry Sowden1840–1907 · Union Army soldier, lawyer, politician (1840–1907)
Thomas Davey1856–1934 · New Zealand politician
JB
John Bellows1831–1902 · English printer, lexicographer and archaeologist (1831-1902)
RW
Richard Wadge1864–1923 · English football manager (1864-1923)
PE
Philip King Enright1894–1960 · British admiral (1894–1960)
Frances Notley1820–1912 · British novelist
EO
Ernest Olver1874–1943 · South African rugby union footballer (1874-)
RC
Richard Marsh Crofton1891–1955 · British Army officer and colonial administrator
Everyone born in Liskeard → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Liskeard
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liskeard | 10,901 | 167 | 0 | A |
| St Cleer | 1,144 | 16 | 2 | A− |
| Dobwalls | 1,683 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Pensilva | 1,656 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Pelynt | 1,144 | 21 | 1 | A− |
| Looe | 5,314 | 102 | 0 | A |
| Callington | 4,665 | 27 | 1 | B |
| Kelly Bray | 1,137 | 0 | 0 | D |
In brief
Liskeard in brief
Measured per resident, Liskeard has more listed heritage than 87% of UK towns. In all there are 167 listed buildings, including St Martin's Church. Fore Street alone has 13 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977.
Most entries on the list, 68%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 8 people born here before 1900, the best known include William Henry Sowden (1840), Thomas Davey (1856) and John Bellows (1831). The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; it also has 2 scheduled monuments; and 18% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Liskeard’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Liskeard?
Historic England lists 167 buildings inside Liskeard’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 5 Grade II* and 162 Grade II.
Which street in Liskeard has the most listed buildings?
Fore Street (13), Church Street (11) and Dean Street (10) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Liskeard?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Culverland Cross in St Martin's churchyard to the north west of the church and Tencreek Cross in St Martin's churchyard 3.5m south east of the church.
How many conservation areas are there in Liskeard?
1, covering about 32 hectares of the town. The largest is Liskeard.
When were Liskeard’s buildings listed?
The first in 1950; the most, 75, in 1993.
Are there old photos of Liskeard?
Yes: 4 public-domain photos and postcards from 1920 to 1925, all on this page.
Who was born in Liskeard?
Among people born before 1900: William Henry Sowden (1840), Thomas Davey (1856), John Bellows (1831), Richard Wadge (1864) and Philip King Enright (1894).
How old are the homes in Liskeard?
18% of homes were built before 1919 and 22% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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