Description

LOOE

SX2453 FORE STREET, East Looe
857-1/4/14 (West side)
17/09/73 The Guildhall

GV II

Guildhall with police cells. 1877.
MATERIALS: coursed slatestone rubble with freestone dressings,
chamfered to openings; steep dry slate roofs with projecting
eaves; clock tower with freestone machicolated cornice and
very steep pyramidal roof with central weather vane and hipped
dormer with finial to each face; rubble lateral stacks.
PLAN: large irregular plan with principal deep hall range
right of the clock tower and range set back left of clock
tower.
EXTERIOR: Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys: lower range with
hipped roof left of tall unbuttressed straight tower and coped
gable end of hall range on the right. Left-hand range has pair
of round-arched lights over 2 single lights.
Tower has pair of transomed arched lights over pointed-arched
doorway; above this a pair of small square-headed lights and
central single light above; at the top a clockface (1880)
(also to other sides).
Hall range has central ground-floor buttress; flanking
pointed-arched windows; trio of round-arched lights to 1st
floor and glazed central gable ventilator.
Right-hand return is 5 bays with lancets on sill string to 1st
floor, some with leaded glazing; pointed arched openings to
ground floor; window to central bays with recessed aprons;
pointed arched doorway on the left with original pair of
5-panel doors and flat-headed doorway on the right. Ground
floor windows are 4-light, transomed and with 3-panes per
light plus glazed tympana with similar sized panes.
Left-hand return is 3-window range with single-light
flat-headed windows to 1st floor; corbelled stack to 1st-floor
left over 2 squat segmental-arched cell windows with fixed
lights with glazing bars and horizontal iron security bars.
Doorway, right of centre with original pair of 5-panel doors
and wide opening, now glazed at far right, both with segmental
arches.
Rear has projecting gable end of hall similar to front end on
left, hipped wing on right with 2 pointed lights with coloured
leaded glazing; small single-light left of these and quadrant
corner to link with 2 similar flat-headed lights with leaded
coloured glass. Ground floor extended C20.
INTERIOR: chamfered cross beams and axial beams to ground
floor; 1st floor not inspected.
Built to replace the earlier guildhall in Higher Market Street
(qv), following the abolition of the West Looe Coporation.
(Kelly's Directories: Cornwall: 1906-: 192).

Listing NGR: SX2550353400

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Guildhall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26569953

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living