Description

LAUNCESTON

SX32843384 MARKET STREET 660-1/4/96 (North side) 27/02/50 Health Offices

GV II

Formerly known as: The Vicarage CHURCH STREET. Rectory, now offices. C18 and later extensions. Rendered street front, sides and part of rear, otherwise rubble with flat dressed stone arches and some slatehanging; rag slate hipped roofs and 2 gables onto street, some late C19 crested clay ridge tiles; large rendered axial stack with diagonally-set shaft. Fairly large complex plan: C18 range on the right; mid C19 range on the left. 2-storey, 5-bay street front range; 2-storey remains of original front at rear and 3-storey 2-window range on its right. Street front has projecting C19 or C19 remodelled wing on the left, then a small gable over a 1-window range and a wide gable over a symmetrical 3-window front with blind central window over doorway with moulded architrave and hoods with consoles; panelled reveals, panelled door and portcullis-like overlight; C18 twelve-pane hornless sashes with thick glazing bars; mid C19 twelve-pane hornless sashes flanking door; later horned sashes on left. Left-hand return (facing churchyard) has Gothic style features: pointed 4-pane light over 4-centred-arched doorway, with top-glazed door, and similar arched 2-light window on the right both with Y-traceried heads. Rear has ramped pediment over 3-window range on the left with original 18-pane sashes with thick glazing bars to ground floor, 1st floor middle and lower sash of 1st floor right; 1st floor left enlarged to create doorway mid C20, approached by steel fire escape. Later range on the right has mid C19 twelve-pane hornless sashes except for late C19 four-pane horned sash to 2nd floor left and 2-pane fixed light to centre of ground floor. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SX3325384648

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)