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3, Market Place

A Grade II Listed Building in Penzance, Cornwall

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Latitude: 50.1186 / 50°7'7"N

Longitude: -5.5364 / 5°32'11"W

OS Eastings: 147294

OS Northings: 30272

OS Grid: SW472302

Mapcode National: GBR DXQC.DT1

Mapcode Global: VH05H.Z8GX

Plus Code: 9C2P4F97+CC

Entry Name: 3, Market Place

Listing Date: 12 December 2001

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1389613

English Heritage Legacy ID: 488301

ID on this website: 101389613

Location: Penzance, Cornwall, TR18

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Penzance

Built-Up Area: Penzance

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Penzance St Mary the Virgin with St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


PENZANCE

866/0/10020 MARKET PLACE
12-DEC-01 3

GV II

Bank; now shop. 1889; by James Hicks of Redruth; for the Devon and Cornwall Bank. Grey granite ashlar front. Roof concealed behind parapet.
PLAN: Ground floor is now one large shop, formerly with banking hall at front and with stairs at rear.
Victorian Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: Tall building of 3 storeys. 3-bay north front with superimposed orders; 3-bay arcaded ground floor with round arches with egg-and-dart extrados, panelled intrados, keystones and piers with large moulded capitals, the centre right pier is a pair of polished pink granite colonnettes with richly carved Composite capitals. Pilasters and cornice strings to storeys above, the first floor breaks forward as an oriel on large granite console brackets and with colonnettes with Composite capitals; second floor also pilastered, the cornice breaking forward over pilasters and with parapet, the centre raised as small Dutch gable having shaped panel inscribed '1889 D and CB' and a panel in frieze below inscribed 'Estb'd 1832'. First and second floor sash windows with plate glass and C20 shop windows.
INTERIOR: Ground floor now one large shop. Wooden open-well staircase at back with turned balusters and newels with ball finials. Cast-iron chimneypieces in first and second floor rooms.
A good example of a Victorian local bank with an impressive granite fa?ade.

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