The Old Guildhall (Now Museum)
THE OLD GUILDHALL (NOW MUSEUM), HIGHER MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201113
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Guildhall (Now Museum)
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL (NOW MUSEUM), HIGHER MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201113
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Guildhall (Now Museum)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL (NOW MUSEUM), HIGHER MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL (NOW MUSEUM), MIDDLE MARKET STREET
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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:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL (NOW MUSEUM), HIGHER MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL (NOW MUSEUM), MIDDLE MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Looe
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2559253213
Details
LOOE
SX2453 HIGHER MARKET STREET, East Looe
857-1/4/25 (South West side)
19/03/51 The Old Guildhall (now Museum)
GV II*
Guildhall, now Museum. Probably C16, slightly remodelled C17.
MATERIALS: rubble walls with chamfered oak lintels, some of
which are original; part grouted and part slurried rag slate
roof with 7 original crested clay ridge tiles; truncated rear
lateral stack.
PLAN: rectangular 1st-floor hall plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with street level built up at the front;
2-window range. Late C17 or 1705 3-light oak mullioned windows
to 1st floor (front and rear); rubble string just above 1st
floor sill level; many original or C17 oak lintels.
Ground-floor windows have C20 copy outer frames; leaded lights
to 1st floor; fixed lights with glazing bars to ground floor.
Above ground-floor lintels are the truncated remains of
original corbels whichprobably originally projected to carry
pentice roof with string course as weathering. Original oak
doorway with shouldered head central to fenestration; C20
panelled copy door, similar original doorway to 1st-floor left
with original 9-panel door. Flight of external stone steps
with pentice roof up to open gabled porch with town pillory
used as collar. Left-hand return has 2 small barred windows.
INTERIOR: original oak roof structure with high morticed
collars, trenched purlins and slightly curved truss feet
carried on wallplates; canopied plaster ceiling to left-hand
end with simple cove to follow shape of trusses; corbelled
fireplace hood with late C19 or C20 granite corbels. Ground
floor has original chamfered joists and inner ends visible of
probable pentice corbels. At 1st-floor right is the 1705
magistrates bench with bolection-moulded panelling and a
plaster coat of arms above.
Listing NGR: SX2559253213
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376409
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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