78, LOWER MARKET STREET
78, LOWER MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187643
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 78, LOWER MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 78, LOWER MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187643
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 78, LOWER MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 78, LOWER MARKET STREET
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:
- 78, LOWER MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Penryn
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 78362 34480
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365792
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Penryn Survey Group Report in Penryn Survey Group, (1980-1990)
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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