27B, MARKET PLACE
27B, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389614
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 27B, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 27B, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389614
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 27B, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27B, 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:
- 27B, 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 47216 30270
Details
PENZANCE
866/0/10021 MARKET PLACE
12-DEC-01 27B
GV II
Shop premises. 1905; by Oliver Caldwell of Penzance; later C20 alterations. Granite with red and yellow terracotta dressings. Roof concealed behind parapet.
PLAN: Ground floor shop with chambers above.
Edwardian Free Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 2-bay north front. Ground floor later C20 shop front with large fascia board. First and second floors have paired red terracotta giant Ionic pilasters with rustication, masks and festoons, flanking tall recessed 2-storey canted bays in yellow terracotta with Ipswich mullion windows and simulated tile-hanging; the bays break the entablature and set back above each bay there is a small gable with a keyed oculus and a festoon below, the curved parapets between with balustrades behind. Left corner is curved and has narrow curved bay and flanking giant pilasters. Right-hand [W] return is of two bays, similarly, but less ornately, detailed.
INTERIOR: Ground floor shop has suspended ceiling. Floors above not inspected.
A good example of an Edwardian terracotta commercial building.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488302
- 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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