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
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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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