19 AND 21, HIGHER MARKET STREET
19 AND 21, HIGHER MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298632
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 19 AND 21, HIGHER MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 19 AND 21, HIGHER MARKET STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298632
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 19 AND 21, HIGHER MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 19 AND 21, HIGHER 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:
- 19 AND 21, HIGHER 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 78524 34372
Details
PENRYN
SW7834SE HIGHER MARKET STREET 580-1/6/80 Nos.19 AND 21 22/09/71
GV II
Town house. C16, remodelled front C17 and early C18. Stucco on rubble, rubble at rear; steep dry roof, cast-iron ogee gutter. U-shaped plan flanking ope (through-passage) with very deep rear wing on right, part of Nos 1-4 Eason's Yard (qv). 3 storeys; 4-window range. Late C19 or C20 horned sashes with margin panes, ground floor with 2 late C19/early C20 shop fronts: 2-light shopfront on left (No.19) with canted sidelight to doorway at far left with 4-panel top-glazed door with arched top panels; 4-light double shop front to No.21 with splayed doorway with sidelights and glazed door. Rear wing of 21 has reused granite fragments of C17 mullioned windows. INTERIOR: much renovated c1980 including the removal of C17 four-light wooden ovolo-moulded window; an old staircase; a C16 moulded beam which had been reused as a wall plate; one bay of C16 moulded joists now reused in No.1 Eason's Yard and a c1700 bolection-moulded chimneypiece. Features that survive include a C16 floor with moulded oak beams and joists in rear wing; a blocked half of a C16 four-centred arched lateral fireplace; C16 roof structure above with curved feet to trusses with cranked morticed collars and threaded purlins. (The Penryn Survey Group: 1980-1990).
Listing NGR: SW7852434372
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365761
- 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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