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| HER Number: | 18062 |
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| Name: | REDRUTH - Post Medieval market house |
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Summary
Market House, built 1829. Granite, set around cobbled courtyard with later 1870's alterations carried out when a replacement 1877 Meat Market was constructed to the north.
Protected Status
- Conservation Area: REDRUTH
- Listed Building (II): Redruth Buttermarket
Other References/Statuses
- Cornwall SURVEY NAME (temporary): jgpublic
- Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 18062
- SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW64SE 76
Monument Type(s):
Full description
Market House, built 1829. Granite, set around cobbled courtyard with later 1870's alterations carried out when a replacement 1877 Meat Market was constructed to the north. Recorded on the 1841 Redruth Tithe Map, the 1878 1:500 Redruth Town OS Map and the1874 and 1889 Manor of Tehidy Map (b2). In the late 1960's the Meat Market closed and was used as a furniture warehouse. In1982 the former Meat Market and adjacent Post Office building were mostly destroyed by fire, being reconstructed in 2001 as the Cornwall Centre (On the site of the Post Office) and a new covered row of small shops on the site of (and showing reference to) to 1877 Meat Market. The southern portion of the Market House has been re-used as a market inconjunction with the new N-S passage of shops and remains relativley unaltered since 1829 (b2).
Johns, C, Berry, E & Gossip, J, 2001, Alma Place, Redruth ( The Cornwall Centre) - Archaeological and Historic Building Recording, p12-15 (Cornwall Event Report). SCO1271.
<1> Tangye, M, 1967, Hundred of Penwith, Eastern Division 4: Parish of Redruth, VOL 6, 93 (Article in Journal). SCO4536.
Sources / Further Reading
| --- | SCO1271 - Cornwall Event Report: Johns, C, Berry, E & Gossip, J. 2001. Alma Place, Redruth ( The Cornwall Centre) - Archaeological and Historic Building Recording. Cornwall Archaeological Unit. p12-15. |
| [1] | SCO4536 - Article in Journal: Tangye, M. 1967. Hundred of Penwith, Eastern Division 4: Parish of Redruth. Cornish Archaeology. 6. 90-95. VOL 6, 93. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- ECO327 - Redruth, Alma Place
- ECO5708 - The Buttermarket, Market Strand, Redruth, Cornwall: Historic building investigation (Ref: 53-2021)
Related records: none recorded
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