8 AND 10, LOWER MARKET STREET
8 AND 10, LOWER MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280389
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 10, LOWER MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 10, LOWER MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280389
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 10, LOWER MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8 AND 10, 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:
- 8 AND 10, 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 78564 34388
Details
PENRYN
SW7834SE LOWER MARKET STREET 580-1/6/95 Nos.8 AND 10 22/09/71
GV II
Town house with later shop in the C19 used for town council meetings on 1st floor. Early C17, refronted early C19. Stucco on studwork to 2nd floor, on rubble to 1st floor; steep asbestos slate roof with projecting front eaves; lateral brick stack at rear of front range. U-shaped plan including parallel range at rear linked by wing at rear left. 3 storeys; 5-window range. Early C19 sixteen-pane hornless sashes to 2nd floor (2nd from left window blocked and painted on with thick glazing bars). C20 transomed casement windows to 1st floor; large mid/late C20 shop front to ground floor with its doorway central to front. INTERIOR: early C18 open-well closed string stair with turned balusters and moulded handrail; C17 chamfered granite fireplace to 1st-floor room and rare, if not unique (for Cornwall), early C17 oak roof structure with curved feet to the trusses, threaded purlins and 2 tiers of collars pegged with halved and lapped dovetail joints. (The Penryn Survey Group: 1980-1990).
Listing NGR: SW7856434388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365778
- 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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