Description

HELSTON

SW6427 MARKET PLACE
631-1/4/143 (East side)
22/05/72 Alliance & Leicester Building
Society
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(East side)
Premises occupied by Helston Trustee
Savings Bank)

GV II

Town house, later bank, now building society premises. c1840.
Granite ashlar with vermiculated plinth, moulded window
architraves and tall parapet entablature with heavy moulded
cornice; asbestos slate roof where visible; brick stacks.
Tapered corner-site plan. Classical style. 2-storeys over
basement; symmetrical 3-bay front framed by giant pilasters.
Late C19 or C20 twelve-pane horned sashes; central doorway
flanked by blind panels; original pair of 5-panel doors and
latticed overlight, 4 granite steps; latticed basement window
on left. Left-hand return and rear elevation have original
sashes with glazing bars; some blind windows. INTERIOR:
open-well open-string staircase with scrolled mahogany
handrail; panelled doors and moulded plaster ceiling cornice.
This building is part of an important group of high quality
buildings including the guildhall (qv) and market hall (now
the Museum (qv)) in the centre of the town.

Listing NGR: SW6593227506

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585157

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Recommended Books

• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  For the Record
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)