St Just town is a striking example of a nineteenth century mining settlement which expanded from an earlier medieval village. Its features are distinctive. Market Square and Bank Square (with its clock tower) are surrounded by hotels, public houses and shops. Streets of terraced houses are characterised by ranks of nearly identical single-fronted cottages with cut-granite facades. These contrast with interspersed miners’ cottages from an earlier period, with lower elevations and smaller windows set in rubble-stone walls.