3, MARKET PLACE
3, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389613
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 3, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 3, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389613
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 3, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, 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:
- 3, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Penzance
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 47294 30271
Details
PENZANCE
866/0/10020 MARKET PLACE
12-DEC-01 3
GV II
Bank; now shop. 1889; by James Hicks of Redruth; for the Devon and Cornwall Bank. Grey granite ashlar front. Roof concealed behind parapet.
PLAN: Ground floor is now one large shop, formerly with banking hall at front and with stairs at rear.
Victorian Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: Tall building of 3 storeys. 3-bay north front with superimposed orders; 3-bay arcaded ground floor with round arches with egg-and-dart extrados, panelled intrados, keystones and piers with large moulded capitals, the centre right pier is a pair of polished pink granite colonnettes with richly carved Composite capitals. Pilasters and cornice strings to storeys above, the first floor breaks forward as an oriel on large granite console brackets and with colonnettes with Composite capitals; second floor also pilastered, the cornice breaking forward over pilasters and with parapet, the centre raised as small Dutch gable having shaped panel inscribed '1889 D and CB' and a panel in frieze below inscribed 'Estb'd 1832'. First and second floor sash windows with plate glass and C20 shop windows.
INTERIOR: Ground floor now one large shop. Wooden open-well staircase at back with turned balusters and newels with ball finials. Cast-iron chimneypieces in first and second floor rooms.
A good example of a Victorian local bank with an impressive granite fa?ade.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488301
- 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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