Market House
MARKET HOUSE, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206648
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Market House
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HOUSE, MARKET STREET
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- 2001-09-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/05130/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206648
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Market House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET HOUSE, 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:
- MARKET HOUSE, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Launceston
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 33250 84626
Details
LAUNCESTON
SX32843384 MARKET STREET 660-1/4/99 Market House 25/09/90
GV II
Market house, now shops. 1840. Slatestone rubble buttressed walls; slurried scantle slate hipped roof with large hip-roofed clerestory 8 bays long with rubble piers with cornices between side bays and stucco piers to 3-bay ends, all windows with vertical glazing bars and random panes. Large rectangular plan. Single storey over basement to north. Market Street side. NW end entrance elevation has central hipped dry-slate roofed porch and central granite pilastered doorway with moulded entablature. Side walls are 10 bays with squat vertically-glazed windows between buttresses. INTERIOR: now fitted with shop fronts. HISTORY: when first built, the central portion was a butchers market and the outer portions were for fish and vegetables. (Robbins AF: Launceston, Past and Preston: Launceston: 1888-: 329).
Listing NGR: SX3325084626
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370035
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robbins, A F, Launceston Past and Present, (1888), 329
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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