Description

1.
5363
MARKET PLACE
(South-west side)

ST 7748 SE 5/399

No 3 (Premises of
Frome-Selwood
Building Society)

GV II
2.
Very important position at top of Market Place. 1860s appearance though possibly it
could be what was once Stuckeys Bank, which was built here 1835. 4½ storey
ornamental corner block. Elizabethan features. Ashlar with cornices over each
floor and moulded cill strings. Fluted end piers with floral caps. Cornice and
corniced parapet, end finials, gable over rounded attic window with 3 diagonally
placed finials. 3 storey 1 + 2 + 1 light oriel. Original ornamental shop front with
arched doorway to left and 2 windows, left-hand one framed by barley sugar colonettes
to base of oriel on which is pediment with armorial cartouche. Spandrels of door
and end pilasters have relief carving. 4 bay return to Stony Street with similar
treatment, paired windows above.

Listing NGR: ST7761748019

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26468419

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)