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Market House

A Grade II Listed Building in Launceston, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.6374 / 50°38'14"N

Longitude: -4.3595 / 4°21'34"W

OS Eastings: 233250

OS Northings: 84626

OS Grid: SX332846

Mapcode National: GBR NL.9224

Mapcode Global: FRA 17RD.3G1

Plus Code: 9C2QJJPR+X6

Entry Name: Market House

Listing Date: 25 September 1990

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1206648

English Heritage Legacy ID: 370035

ID on this website: 101206648

Location: Launceston, Cornwall, PL15

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Launceston

Built-Up Area: Launceston

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Launceston

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


LAUNCESTON

SX32843384 MARKET STREET 660-1/4/99 Market House 25/09/90

GV II

Market house, now shops. 1840. Slatestone rubble buttressed walls; slurried scantle slate hipped roof with large hip-roofed clerestory 8 bays long with rubble piers with cornices between side bays and stucco piers to 3-bay ends, all windows with vertical glazing bars and random panes. Large rectangular plan. Single storey over basement to north. Market Street side. NW end entrance elevation has central hipped dry-slate roofed porch and central granite pilastered doorway with moulded entablature. Side walls are 10 bays with squat vertically-glazed windows between buttresses. INTERIOR: now fitted with shop fronts. HISTORY: when first built, the central portion was a butchers market and the outer portions were for fish and vegetables. (Robbins AF: Launceston, Past and Preston: Launceston: 1888-: 329).

Listing NGR: SX3325084626

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