Description

MARKET PLACE
1.
1348
(North Side)
Nos 2 to 5 (consec)
TF 38 NW 1/193
II GV
2.
Including Market Hall, Eastgate.
One composition. 1866. Rogers and Marsden. Market Hall consists of a 3-storey
tower in red brick with yellow dressings. Welsh slate roof with metal spire
and weathervane. Yellow brick moulded cornice. Louvres in roof, clock in opening
on top storey. Segmental-headed opening on 1st floor contains 2 trefoil-headed
lancets with columned mullion with foliated capital. 2 lower lancet windows
and arched entrance, pointed hood with finial. Attractive Eastgate elevation
consists chiefly of gable end comprising one semi-circular light. Round-arched
doorway with double-doors with ornamental hinges. Nos 2-5 (consec) are 2 flanking
blocks of 3 storeys in red brick with yellow dressings. Welsh slate roofs hipped
round quoins with brick stacks and iron finial to corner. Yellow brick eaves
cornice, arcading and dentils. 3 windows to each block, to both elevations,
hung sashes. 1st floor have strings joining pointed dripmoulds over round-headed
windows. 2 doorways in chamfered angles of buildings, round-headed fanlights
beneath pointed hoods with finials beneath labels. Modern shop fronts.
Nos 1 to 5 (consec), No 7 and Market Hall, Eastgate, form a group.

Listing NGR: TF3285187406

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26316563

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