Guildhall
GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196492
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196492
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILDHALL, 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:
- GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helston
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 65934 27471
Details
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 January 2023 to correct the name of the architect, to change numbers to words and to reformat text to current standards.
SW6427
631-1/4/148
HELSTON
MARKET PLACE
Guildhall
22/05/72
GV
II*
Guildhall. 1839. By William Harris. Granite ashlar with rock-faced plinth; rustication to ground floor of front; moulded architraves, moulded mid-floor string and eaves; moulded triangular pediment fronting low-pitched roof. Rectangular plan. Neo-classical style. Two-storey pedimented front of three bays. Pediment with central clock flanked by carved winged figures over Doric frieze with triglyphs (returned to sides as part of parapet entablature); central date; three first-floor twelve-pane hornless sashes with moulded architraves and hoods framed by distyle in antae with fluted Doric columns. Ground floor has three pilastered doorways with solid triangular pediments on consoles; original overlights and pairs of panelled doors. Other elevations well-detailed and complete. Side walls with articulated bays and tall sashes.Basement also has original sashes.
INTERIOR: council chamber with columns of former gallery but later floored in; original plaster ceiling to the now separate room above. Part of a fine group, including the market hall (now the Museum (qv)), which were built at the height of Helston's prosperity resulting from the tin-mining industry.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385498
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 890
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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