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
- Country
- England
- Type
- Market house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LAUNCESTON
SX32843384 MARKET STREET 660-1/4/99 Market House 25/09/90
GV II
Market house, now shops. 1840. Slatestone rubble buttressed walls; slurried scantle slate hipped roof with large hip-roofed clerestory 8 bays long with rubble piers with cornices between side bays and stucco piers to 3-bay ends, all windows with vertical glazing bars and random panes. Large rectangular plan. Single storey over basement to north. Market Street side. NW end entrance elevation has central hipped dry-slate roofed porch and central granite pilastered doorway with moulded entablature. Side walls are 10 bays with squat vertically-glazed windows between buttresses. INTERIOR: now fitted with shop fronts. HISTORY: when first built, the central portion was a butchers market and the outer portions were for fish and vegetables. (Robbins AF: Launceston, Past and Preston: Launceston: 1888-: 329).
Listing NGR: SX3325084626
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