The Old Guildhall (Now Museum)

LOOE

SX2453 HIGHER MARKET STREET, East Looe 857-1/4/25 (South West side) 19/03/51 The Old Guildhall (now Museum)

GV II*

Guildhall, now Museum. Probably C16, slightly remodelled C17. MATERIALS: rubble walls with chamfered oak lintels, some of which are original; part grouted and part slurried rag slate roof with 7 original crested clay ridge tiles; truncated rear lateral stack. PLAN: rectangular 1st-floor hall plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with street level built up at the front; 2-window range. Late C17 or 1705 3-light oak mullioned windows to 1st floor (front and rear); rubble string just above 1st floor sill level; many original or C17 oak lintels. Ground-floor windows have C20 copy outer frames; leaded lights to 1st floor; fixed lights with glazing bars to ground floor. Above ground-floor lintels are the truncated remains of original corbels whichprobably originally projected to carry pentice roof with string course as weathering. Original oak doorway with shouldered head central to fenestration; C20 panelled copy door, similar original doorway to 1st-floor left with original 9-panel door. Flight of external stone steps with pentice roof up to open gabled porch with town pillory used as collar. Left-hand return has 2 small barred windows. INTERIOR: original oak roof structure with high morticed collars, trenched purlins and slightly curved truss feet carried on wallplates; canopied plaster ceiling to left-hand end with simple cove to follow shape of trusses; corbelled fireplace hood with late C19 or C20 granite corbels. Ground floor has original chamfered joists and inner ends visible of probable pentice corbels. At 1st-floor right is the 1705 magistrates bench with bolection-moulded panelling and a plaster coat of arms above.

Listing NGR: SX2559253213