Market House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Market house. 1 related planning application.
Market House
- WRENN ID
- silent-tracery-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Market house
- Address
- Market House, Market Street, Launceston, PL15 8EP
- OS grid reference
- SX 332 846
- Coordinates
- 50.6374, -4.35951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market House in Launceston is a market house that has been converted into shops. It was built in 1840 and features slatestone rubble walls that are buttressed. The roof is made of slurried scantle slate and has a hipped design with a large clerestory that spans eight bays. The structure includes rubble piers with cornices between the side bays and stucco piers at the three-bay ends. All windows have vertical glazing bars and random panes. The building has a large rectangular plan and is a single storey over a basement on the north side, facing Market Street.
The northwest entrance elevation has a central porch with a hipped dry-slate roof and a central doorway that is pilastered in granite, topped with a moulded entablature. The side walls contain ten bays with squat vertically-glazed windows positioned between the buttresses. The interior has been fitted with shop fronts. Originally, the central section served as a butcher's market, while the outer sections were designated for fish and vegetables.
Local climate
Market House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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