12, MARKET PLACE
12, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268440
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268440
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, 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:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Penzance
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 47268 30232
Details
SW4730 PENZANCE MARKET PLACE
(East side)
866 /5/10004
No.12
GV II
Shop, former town house. Mid C18, refronted and remodelled in mid/late C19. Rendered walls with steeply-pitched scantle slate roof and brick end stack. Property is built parallel to street, and has 2-storey elevation with 2 first-floor windows over shop front. Shop front is mid/late C19, with cast-iron columns supporting first floor and plate-glass windows framed by cornice, moulded stall riser and right-hand pilaster; overlight- over central glazed door; early C19 cast-iron Tuscan column, probably reused, provides support to left, to front of through-entry. First floor has stuccoed quoining and moulded stucco architraves to plate-glass sashes. Similar architrave to 4-pane casement in left-hand gable. Rear re-rendered mid C20 but has retained C18 2-light wood casement with ovolo-moulded glazing bars. INTERIOR: conversion into a shop in the C19 entailed heightening the ground floor and insertion of some nailed collar trusses; horizontal-boarded partitioning and doors to first floor are C19. Present second floor has mid C18 fireplace to left, with moulded mantleshelf over eared architrave; C18 trusses have lapped and pegged collars, diagonally-set ridge to tenoned apex and trenched purlins of light scantling; moulded soffit to central tie beam.
Listing NGR: SW4726830232
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461827
- 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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