Description

MARAZION MARKET PLACE, Marazion
SW 5130

4/23 Mount House

GV II

House. Circa late C18 possibly incorporating earlier wing. Elvan ashlar front with
dressed granite quoins, sills, jambstones and lintels, rubble sides and rear. Steep
scantle slate roofs with brick chimneys over the gable ends. Modillioned wooden
eaves cornice to the front.
Plan: overall U-shaped plan: 2 room taller front with entrance hall leading to lean-
to stair hall between 2 rear wings at right angles, the left hand wing truncated, the
right hand wing longer and on higher ground.
Exterior : 3 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window east front. Doorway slightly
left of middle and right hand window wide with later inserted granite mullion. C20
door with overlight (reused ship's timber as inner lintel).
Circa late C19 or C20 4-pane horned sashes. Right hand corner splayed for access,
granite steps in front of doorway.
Interior : partly inspected, first and second floor only: possibly original open-well
stair with rectangular balusters and ramped mahogany handrail; C18 moulded ceiling
cornice over; some 6-panel doors and one 2-panel door.
Date 1847 and initials IB found scratched on ridge of rear left-hand wing during
recent repairs (1986).

Listing NGR: SW5190330632

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26612926

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)