Library
LIBRARY, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138348
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Library
- Statutory Address:
- LIBRARY, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138348
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBRARY, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LIBRARY, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camelford
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 10574 83738
Details
CAMELFORD MARKET PLACE, Camelford SX 1083 - 1183 8/76 (1/3) Library (previously listed as Town - 19.1.52 Hall) GV II
Townhall erected over market house, now library, exhibition hall and meeting room. 1806. Financed by John, 6th Duke of Bedford. Slate stone rubble with dressed quoins and dressed stone arches to window openings. Rag slate roof with hipped ends. Rectangular plan with internal partitions altered. Originally the market house on the ground floor with a central entrance on the front and the town hall above with a staircase to a doorway at the rear where the ground is at a higher level. Ground rises to left and to rear. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window front faces onto Market Place; 5 semi-circular headed windows; the window frames replaced in circa mid C20, the central window in an earlier blocked door opening. First floor has 3 semi-circular windows with horned sashes with intersecting glazing bars. Lower side on right has a C20 glazed door with a Venetian window above, the central horned sash with intersecting glazing bars. The higher side on the left has a C20 door on the ground floor and a Venetian window above with stained glass window with Camelford arms. The wall above has been partly rebuilt. The rear elevation has 4 blocked round headed openings on the ground floor and a central double flight of steps which lead up to the first floor entrance with a C19 timber porch with flat roof and moulded cornice. 2 sash windows with round headed arches and intersecting glazing bars to right and left. Timber cupola on roof with clock and weather vane. This cupola originally had 2 bells dated 1807 and 1699. Interior : remodelled in circa mid C20. Bell from cupola in entrance inscribed 'W. Prideaux Mayor, 1699'. The Charter of Camelford was confirmed in 1259 and the rotten borough was created in 1552 to bolster the Earl of Northumberland's government. The rotten borough was abolished in 1831. Kelly's Directory, 1910. Polsue, J. Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall 1872 Volume I.
Listing NGR: SX1057483738
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68519
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Polsue, J, Lakes Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, (1872)
Kellys Directory in Directory of Cornwall, (1910)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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