Market Cottage

LOOE

SX2453 MIDDLE MARKET STREET, East Looe 857-1/4/42 (South West side) 17/09/73 Market Cottage

GV II

Town house with later shop. Probably C17. MATERIALS: render on studwork to Middle Market Street front and to part of left-hand return, otherwise painted rubble; steep scantle slate roof with large eaves and verge slates; 3 original crested clay ridge tiles; truncated rendered rubble stack to rear gable. PLAN: double-depth plan with gable end on to street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with 2nd floor partly in roof space at rear (Market Street) and 2 storeys with attic to front end; blind to 1st floor; small C20 window to centre of gable. Ground floor has central doorway with C20 door and 3-light shop window on its left as corner shop with similar window to left-hand return. Also to return: mid/late C19 4-pane hornless sash; to rubble part on left a similar sash breaking the eaves as a raking dormer and C20 window to each floor below, the ground floor opening spanned by a timber lintel. Rear, probably originally blind, has late C19 12-pane 2-light casement to 1st floor right over a rendered area surrounding a C20 window. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX2554753234