Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/11/2017

SJ 7688 SE,
10/26

ALTRINCHAM,
OLD MARKET PLACE (north side),
Old Market Tavern

(Formerly listed as: Unicorn Hotel)

G.V.

II

Hotel, incorporating former Town Hall. Hotel early
C19, former Town Hall 1849 for Lord Stamford. Brick,
rendered brick, stone dressings and slate roofs. 3-storey
hotel with 4-bay double gabled east elevation, 3-bay Market
Place elevation and a 2-storey 3-bay wing. The former Town
Hall abuts to the north, projecting slightly and is of three
bays and two storeys having a carriage entry and first floor
council chamber. Hotel: projecting plinth, sill bands,
decorative cornice over two first-floor windows, pierced
bargeboards, yellow brick stacks and flat porch with Tuscan
columns and heraldic shield are all late C19 additions. The
earlier facade consisted merely of the 11 window openings three
of which are blocked and none of which retain sashes, and a
doorcase with overlight which still exists. The Market Place
elevation was similarly embellished in late C19 and has a
total of four stepped 3-light windows on the ground floor, five
window openings on the first and three on the second, all with
casement windows. Former Town Hall: stone plinth, banded
rustication to ground floor, first floor sill band and
eaves cornice (formerly bracketed). Ground floor has semi-
circular headed openings with keystones over two casement
windows and a carriage entry in bay one. The central bay is
slightly advanced and has in oriel window with clock turret,
classical bellcote and weather-vane above. On either side of
the oriel is a tall casement window opening (formerly
sashed). Hipped roof.

Listing NGR: SJ7678488104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26320740

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)