Description

HAYLE MARKET STREET, Hayle
SW 5637-5737
11/177 Nos 9 and 10 (Market Place)
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GV II
2 houses, originally the office of the Cornish Copper Company. Circa late C18
or early C19. Built for the Cornish Copper Company. Painted rubble and copper slag blocks, some slatehanging. Steep roof: grouted scantle slate roof to one half (No 10), replaced with asbestos slate to other half. Brick chimneys over
the gable ends. Large external chimney breast on left. Cast-iron ogee gutters
at front left.
Plan: Double depth plan with pair of entrance halls left of middle between 2 front rooms ; pair of stair halls behind entrance halls and service rooms at
rear left and right. Later lean-tos at rear right and small C20 addition at
rear left of middle.
Exterior: 3 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window north-east front with 2
doorways left of middle. Old 6-panel door with top panels later glazed to
No 10, C20 door to No 9. Left-hand windows are circa late C19 4-pane sashes, other windows are C20 but in original openings. Rear of No 10 has old sashes including original 16-pane hornless sash to first floor.
Interior: not inspected.
The Cornish Copper Company was a partnership of leading entrepreneurs set up
in 1755, a partnership which went on to span over a century of progress and development of a major part of the present port of Hayle, an area which
became known as the Copperhouse.
Sources: The History of the Cornish Copper Company by W.H. Pascoe ; The
Harveys of Hayle by Edmund Vale.

Listing NGR: SW5689937928

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453944

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