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Penzance,
Cornwall
Architecture and Heritage
Old Ones,
Neglected Ones
The South side of Market Jew Street is “Betjaman’s
Slough”,
a mediocre collection of drab lifeless architectural disasters,
and I will not honour it with a photograph. … “come
friendly bombs …”
Besides the Star and older cottages towards the station,
there are but two buildings of any note.
The Post Office - built 1883
The curious proportion and odd massing is due to the fact
that the building had an
extra storey added later, before 1905, and the odd
pediment added over the door face.
The first floor façade is an addition, the second floor
being the original first floor, rebuilt.
This Gem, more than worthy of this description, is down
the street.
Nr 99, Market
Jew Street.
Seriously neglected, but
it is the only building on the South side of Market Jew
Street
with any architectural merit at all.
Clearly the glazing bar arrangement in the lower sashes
have replaced
the original more delicate original bars.
The frontage appears to date from c1870.
Look out for it before it disappears.
Raymond
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