Description

PENRYN

SW7834SE HIGHER MARKET STREET
580-1/6/79 Nos.11, 13 AND 13A
28/01/49
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGHER MARKET STREET
Nos.11 AND 13)

GV II

Town house, later 2 houses. C18 on C17 site, remodelled late
C19. Stucco on studwork; steep scantle slate roof; cast-iron
ogee gutter and moulded eaves cornice. Double-depth range at
the front flanking through-passage leading to narrow courtyard
between 2 very deep rear wings at right-angles. 2 storeys;
3-bay 3-window range. Central mid C19 twelve-pane hornless
sash flanked by late C19 oriel bays with polygonal roofs and
late C19 two-pane horned sashes. Canted late C19 six-light
double shop front on right with arched lights and slender
mullions and return lights to central doorway with glazed door
and overlight; flat C20 shop front under canted fascia of
former shop front, on the left, with ope doorway on its right
with planked door and small display window right of doorway.
Rear has mid C19 window to partly slate-hung courtyard
elevation to left-hand wing otherwise C20 windows to other
wing. INTERIOR of shops altered C20, otherwise not inspected
but likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SW7855034364

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569597

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)