36 And 38, Lower Market Street

PENRYN

SW7834SW LOWER MARKET STREET 580-1/5/102 Nos.36 AND 38 22/09/71 (Formerly Listed as: LOWER STREET (North side) Nos.36-40 (Even))

GV II

Town house. C16, remodelled c1680; refronted C19. Render replacing stucco on rubble (front partly rebuilt 1989); dry slate roof; two C17 granite axial stacks with dressed weatherings. Single-depth front range parallel to street plus range at right-angles on right of ope (through-passage) extended at rear late C17; other part extended at rear late C17 and later. 2 storeys; 5-window range. C20 copy hornless sashes with glazing bars (except sashes of window on right removed at time of survey) over three C20 shop fronts with glazing bars. Rear right-hand wing (not accessible at time of survey) had two C17 two-light wooden mullioned windows and a reused C18 sash with thick glazing bars inside ope when last inspected. Part of front rebuilt 1989 when many C17 chamfered fragments were discovered (possibly in situ) but without being recorded were built back as rubble into the wall and now rendered over. INTERIOR not accessible at time of survey but when inspected in 1989 had two C16 oak roof structures (centre of front and on right other roof structures not inspected) with trusses with curved feet, morticed cranked collars and threaded purlins; C16, or early C17, chamfered oak beam and joist, floor structures to wing on right. C17 features including: 2 chamfered granite fireplaces; ovolo-moulded ceiling joists to central room; 2 late C17 scratch-moulded doors in ovolo-moulded frames (a similar door removed for safe-keeping); a fragment of carved and plaster frieze between ground-floor rooms and evidence for a plaster barrel ceiling visible in roof space. C18 features including: several 2-panel doors with HL hinges; open-well stair with C19 balustrade. (The Penryn Survey Group: 1980-1990).

Listing NGR: SW7846834428