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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569313

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)