The Market Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Market Inn
- WRENN ID
- rooted-oriel-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1993
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Market Inn, Back Quay, Truro, TR1 2LL
- OS grid reference
- SW 826 447
- Coordinates
- 50.26271, -5.05089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Inn is a public house located on Back Quay in Truro, built around 1900. The exterior features glazed tiles and polychrome terracotta, with a roof that is hidden behind a parapet. The building is two rooms deep and has a through-passage on the right side. It stands two storeys high with a nearly symmetrical two-window street front, topped by a stilted triangular pediment that has scrolled abutments and ball finials.
On the ground floor, there is a central tripartite horned sash window, with doorways on the left and right, each featuring panelled doors and a panelled tiled dado apron. Above this, a moulded entablature runs across. The first floor has four-pane horned sashes, with chamfered voussoirs and a projecting keyblock, as well as a moulded entablature above that includes the original name panel "MARKET INN" at the centre of the frieze, flanked by blind arcades.
The interior has been altered in the 20th century on the ground floor, but the public house facade remains complete and unaltered.
Local climate
The Market Inn receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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