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19 and 21, Higher Market Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Penryn, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.1679 / 50°10'4"N

Longitude: -5.1027 / 5°6'9"W

OS Eastings: 178524

OS Northings: 34372

OS Grid: SW785343

Mapcode National: GBR ZC.GDSZ

Mapcode Global: FRA 086K.V7P

Plus Code: 9C2P5V9W+5W

Entry Name: 19 and 21, Higher Market Street

Listing Date: 22 September 1971

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1298632

English Heritage Legacy ID: 365761

ID on this website: 101298632

Location: Penryn, Cornwall, TR10

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Penryn

Built-Up Area: Penryn

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: St Gluvias

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


PENRYN

SW7834SE HIGHER MARKET STREET 580-1/6/80 Nos.19 AND 21 22/09/71

GV II

Town house. C16, remodelled front C17 and early C18. Stucco on rubble, rubble at rear; steep dry roof, cast-iron ogee gutter. U-shaped plan flanking ope (through-passage) with very deep rear wing on right, part of Nos 1-4 Eason's Yard (qv). 3 storeys; 4-window range. Late C19 or C20 horned sashes with margin panes, ground floor with 2 late C19/early C20 shop fronts: 2-light shopfront on left (No.19) with canted sidelight to doorway at far left with 4-panel top-glazed door with arched top panels; 4-light double shop front to No.21 with splayed doorway with sidelights and glazed door. Rear wing of 21 has reused granite fragments of C17 mullioned windows. INTERIOR: much renovated c1980 including the removal of C17 four-light wooden ovolo-moulded window; an old staircase; a C16 moulded beam which had been reused as a wall plate; one bay of C16 moulded joists now reused in No.1 Eason's Yard and a c1700 bolection-moulded chimneypiece. Features that survive include a C16 floor with moulded oak beams and joists in rear wing; a blocked half of a C16 four-centred arched lateral fireplace; C16 roof structure above with curved feet to trusses with cranked morticed collars and threaded purlins. (The Penryn Survey Group: 1980-1990).

Listing NGR: SW7852434372

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