Helston Museum and Entrance Screen
HELSTON MUSEUM AND ENTRANCE SCREEN, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293091
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Helston Museum and Entrance Screen
- Statutory Address:
- HELSTON MUSEUM AND ENTRANCE SCREEN, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293091
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Helston Museum and Entrance Screen
- Statutory Address 1:
- HELSTON MUSEUM AND ENTRANCE SCREEN, 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:
- HELSTON MUSEUM AND ENTRANCE SCREEN, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helston
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 65946 27507
Details
HELSTON
SW6427 MARKET PLACE 631-1/4/149 (East side) 22/05/72 Helston Museum and entrance screen
GV II
Former market hall. 1837-38 datestone and inscribed: COMMENCED DURING THE/ MAYORALTY OF GLYNN GRYLLS. FINISHED DURING THE/ MAYORALTY OF JOHN SILVESTER. W HARRIS/ ARCHITECT BRISTOL/ W PENBERTHY AND P EVA/ BUILDERS. Granite ashlar front with rock-faced plinth and doorway rustication and shaped parapet with moulded cornice; sloping asbestos slate roof hipped at front and rear. Deep rectangular plan built on a slope up from the entrance. Single storey; front screen wall with 2 segmental-arched doorways framed by plain pilasters. Market doorway on left with pair of glazed and panelled doors and sidelights and tall overlight with small panels; doorway to open courtyard on right. Courtyard elevation is 11 bays with segmental-arched window openings; tripartite windows with 9 panes per light; central round-arched central doorway with planked doors and tympanum plus small doorway on right and wide doorway with glazed doors and overlight at far right. INTERIOR: original King-post roof structure. A very fine example, built with the guildhall (qv) during the height of Helston's prosperity resulting from the tin mining industry. (Colvin H: A Bibliographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 392).
Listing NGR: SW6594627507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 392
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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