Description

SD 5192 NE
8/102
14-4-69
KENDAL

MARKET PLACE
(North side)

Market Hall & No 16

G.V.
II

Market Hall, incorporating entrance to no 16. Built 1887 by public subscription
to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Hammer-dressed rubble with
quoins; ground floor coursed, upper floors snecked. Cornice between ground and
1st floors, string between 1st and 2nd floors, and interrupted string below
eaves band. Moulded cast-iron gutter has lion's head near right-hand end.
Graduated slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Rusticated pier and responds to left
with wrought-iron double gates between; weathered inscription (partly renewed),
with central cartouche, to each lintel. Entrance to no 16 on right: Panelled
door and semicircular fanlight in surround with projecting keystone. Sashes in
architraves: Tall to 1st floor, with segmentally-pedimented frames containing
shields to either side of central window; cast-iron balconies on stone brackets
to 2nd floor with inscription in large, cast-iron letters, PUBLIC MARKET, split
to either side of central window.

Listing NGR: SD5156792810

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431465

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)