Description

PENRYN

SW7834SE EASON'S YARD
580-1/6/61 (West side)
21/10/77 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
EASON'S YARD
(West side)
Premises formerly cottages numbered
1-4 (consec))

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.19 AND 21 HIGHER MARKET STREET.
Rear wing of town house, now 4 units. C16, partly rebuilt late
C17 and again during 1980s. Granite and killas rubble walls
with some granite dressings including C16 doorway and stair
window and some reused C17 window fragments; steep dry slate
roof.
Single-depth plan with semicircular rear stair projection,
right of centre. 2 storeys; irregular 7-window range. 2 reused
late C17 three-light wooden mullioned windows to 1st floor of
No.1, with C20 leaded lights over C20 copies, otherwise C20
casements with glazing bars including windows fitted to
approximately central original 2-centred arched chamfered
doorway. Rear has original ogee-headed stair window with
sockets for former iron crossed bars.
INTERIOR: stripped of many interesting structural and other
details during C20 renovations including C17 ceiling beams and
chestnut pegged roof structure also part of the C16 purlins
and morticed cranked collars. Some of this structure survives
at the right-hand (north) end; also surviving is much of the
original moulded oak beam and joist structure at this end
including a beam and some joists salvaged c1980 and reused
1987. Arched fireplace resited to ground floor at same time
and wooden winder stair repaired.
Formerly the rear wing of Nos 19 & 21 Higher Market Street
(qv).

Listing NGR: SW7851734362

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482810

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Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)