78, Lower Market Street

PENRYN

SW7834SW LOWER MARKET STREET 580-1/5/111 No.78 22/09/71 (Formerly Listed as: LOWER STREET (North side) No.78)

GV II

Town house in row. C17, refronted C18 or early C19. Painted rubble front; steep dry slate roof; brick end stacks; original rubble stack at rear wing gable removed c1980. Deep L-shaped plan including rear wing: the 2-room front range has heated hall/kitchen to left of originally unheated service room. 2 storeys; 2-window range. C20 four-pane horned sashes; doorway right of middle with C20 partly-glazed door. INTERIOR much altered c1980 but retains some C18 or early C19 floor and roof structures. During building work two C17 two-light mullioned windows were discovered plastered over: an ovolo-moulded window beside chimney breast of rear wing and a leaded glazed window with original lozenge-paned fixed light and a later C17 or C18 opening casement with rectangular panes, to rear of 1st-floor right-hand chamber. The glazed window is now in the Penryn Museum. (The Penryn Survey Group: 1980-1990).

Listing NGR: SW7836234480