3, Market Place

This building, located at 3 Market Place in Penzance, was originally a bank and is now a shop. It was constructed in 1889 by James Hicks of Redruth for the Devon and Cornwall Bank. The front is made of grey granite ashlar, and the roof is concealed behind a parapet.

The building is three storeys tall and features a three-bay north front designed in the Victorian Italianate style. The ground floor has an arcaded design with round arches that have egg-and-dart detailing on the outer edges, panelled interiors, keystones, and piers topped with large moulded capitals. Notably, the centre right pier includes a pair of polished pink granite colonnettes with intricately carved Composite capitals. Above the ground floor, there are pilasters and cornice strings, with the first floor projecting forward as an oriel supported by large granite console brackets and colonnettes with Composite capitals. The second floor is also pilastered, with the cornice breaking forward over the pilasters and a parapet that features a small Dutch gable at the centre, inscribed with '1889 D and CB' and a frieze panel below that reads 'Estb'd 1832'. The first and second floor windows are sash windows with plate glass, while the ground floor has 20th-century shop windows.

Inside, the ground floor is now a single large shop space. At the back, there is a wooden open-well staircase with turned balusters and newels topped with ball finials. The first and second floors contain cast-iron chimneypieces. This building is a notable example of a Victorian local bank, distinguished by its impressive granite façade.