The Guildhall
THE GUILDHALL, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280863
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILDHALL, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280863
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GUILDHALL, FORE 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 GUILDHALL, FORE 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:
- SX 25503 53400
Details
LOOE
SX2453 FORE STREET, East Looe 857-1/4/14 (West side) 17/09/73 The Guildhall
GV II
Guildhall with police cells. 1877. MATERIALS: coursed slatestone rubble with freestone dressings, chamfered to openings; steep dry slate roofs with projecting eaves; clock tower with freestone machicolated cornice and very steep pyramidal roof with central weather vane and hipped dormer with finial to each face; rubble lateral stacks. PLAN: large irregular plan with principal deep hall range right of the clock tower and range set back left of clock tower. EXTERIOR: Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys: lower range with hipped roof left of tall unbuttressed straight tower and coped gable end of hall range on the right. Left-hand range has pair of round-arched lights over 2 single lights. Tower has pair of transomed arched lights over pointed-arched doorway; above this a pair of small square-headed lights and central single light above; at the top a clockface (1880) (also to other sides). Hall range has central ground-floor buttress; flanking pointed-arched windows; trio of round-arched lights to 1st floor and glazed central gable ventilator. Right-hand return is 5 bays with lancets on sill string to 1st floor, some with leaded glazing; pointed arched openings to ground floor; window to central bays with recessed aprons; pointed arched doorway on the left with original pair of 5-panel doors and flat-headed doorway on the right. Ground floor windows are 4-light, transomed and with 3-panes per light plus glazed tympana with similar sized panes. Left-hand return is 3-window range with single-light flat-headed windows to 1st floor; corbelled stack to 1st-floor left over 2 squat segmental-arched cell windows with fixed lights with glazing bars and horizontal iron security bars. Doorway, right of centre with original pair of 5-panel doors and wide opening, now glazed at far right, both with segmental arches. Rear has projecting gable end of hall similar to front end on left, hipped wing on right with 2 pointed lights with coloured leaded glazing; small single-light left of these and quadrant corner to link with 2 similar flat-headed lights with leaded coloured glass. Ground floor extended C20. INTERIOR: chamfered cross beams and axial beams to ground floor; 1st floor not inspected. Built to replace the earlier guildhall in Higher Market Street (qv), following the abolition of the West Looe Coporation. (Kelly's Directories: Cornwall: 1906-: 192).
Listing NGR: SX2550353400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376385
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1906), 192
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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