Mount House
MOUNT HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327549
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mount House
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNT HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327549
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mount House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNT HOUSE, 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:
- MOUNT HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marazion
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 51903 30632
Details
MARAZION MARKET PLACE, Marazion SW 5130
4/23 Mount House
GV II
House. Circa late C18 possibly incorporating earlier wing. Elvan ashlar front with dressed granite quoins, sills, jambstones and lintels, rubble sides and rear. Steep scantle slate roofs with brick chimneys over the gable ends. Modillioned wooden eaves cornice to the front. Plan: overall U-shaped plan: 2 room taller front with entrance hall leading to lean- to stair hall between 2 rear wings at right angles, the left hand wing truncated, the right hand wing longer and on higher ground. Exterior : 3 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window east front. Doorway slightly left of middle and right hand window wide with later inserted granite mullion. C20 door with overlight (reused ship's timber as inner lintel). Circa late C19 or C20 4-pane horned sashes. Right hand corner splayed for access, granite steps in front of doorway. Interior : partly inspected, first and second floor only: possibly original open-well stair with rectangular balusters and ramped mahogany handrail; C18 moulded ceiling cornice over; some 6-panel doors and one 2-panel door. Date 1847 and initials IB found scratched on ridge of rear left-hand wing during recent repairs (1986).
Listing NGR: SW5190330632
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69929
- 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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