Description

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PRESCOT MARKET PLACE SJ 49 SE 6/50 No 9, with former workshop to rear

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House with shop, and former workshop to rear. The house fronting Market Place early C19, the workshop possibly C17 in part. Rendered brick, slate roof; the workshop random rubble. Double-depth house with rear wing; 3 storeys, regular 2 window range. Parapet raised and shaped to centre, with moulded cornice. Hornless sash windows, 9-pane to 2nd, 15-pane to 1st floors, stucco pilasters. Mid to late C19 shop front with central doorway (under rectangular overlight), and renewed brick plinth. House doorway to left, the door panelled. Large brick stack to front shape of roof to left. To the rear a structure understood to be the earliest free-standing tool and watchmaker's workshop in Prescot (which was one of the national centres of watch making in England); plain rectangular plan, single-storey, much patched (with brick in part), flag floor; various openings altered.

Listing NGR: SJ4710892821

External Links

• Wikidata Q26338921

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey