Health Offices

Health Offices, originally known as The Vicarage, stand on Market Street in Launceston. The building dates primarily to the 18th century, with later additions in the mid-19th century. It was formerly a rectory.

The building is a complex of ranges, with a rendered front facade, rubble walls, flat dressed stone arches, and slatehanging. The roofs are hipped, with gables facing the street, some featuring late 19th-century crested clay ridge tiles. A large, rendered axial stack has a diagonally-set shaft. The original 18th-century range is on the right side of the street front. To the left is a mid-19th-century range.

The street front is two storeys and five bays. A projecting wing sits on the left, followed by a small gable over a single-window range, and then a wider gable over a symmetrical three-window front. A blind central window sits above the doorway, which has a moulded architrave and consoles with hoods. The doorway also features a panelled reveal, a panelled door, and a portcullis-like overlight. Original 18th-century twelve-pane hornless sashes with thick glazing bars are present, along with mid-19th-century twelve-pane hornless sashes flanking the door, and later horned sashes to the left.

The left-hand return, facing the churchyard, displays Gothic style features including a pointed four-pane light over a 4-centred-arched doorway with a top-glazed door, and a similar arched two-light window with Y-traceried heads.

The rear of the building retains portions of the original front, standing two storeys high, as well as a three-storey, two-window range. The original rear features 18-pane sashes with thick glazing bars to the ground floor, and to the 1st floor middle and lower sash of the 1st floor right. A doorway was added mid-20th century on the left, approached by a steel fire escape. A later range on the right has mid-19th-century twelve-pane hornless sashes, with the exception of a late-19th-century four-pane horned sash to the 2nd floor left and a two-pane fixed light to the center of the ground floor.

The interior of the building has not been inspected, but is likely to be of interest.