Description

MANSFIELD

SK5361 MARKET PLACE
924-1/5/67 (South West side)
17/03/78 Probate Office
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(West side)
County Court House)

GV II

Former savings bank and courthouse, now probate office. 1840,
with alterations 1867. Ashlar, with ashlar dressings and
hipped slate roof with 2 coped ashlar side wall stacks.
Rusticated plinth, string courses and sill bands, dentillated
main cornice. 2 storeys; 3-window range of unusual
wooden-framed cross casements, with projecting surrounds and
pediments. Central portico with Doric pilasters and cornice,
covering a fielded 8-panel door with margin-glazed overlight.
On either side, a 12-pane sash with flanking pilasters and
small cornice, set in a recessed panel.
Left return has a pedimented cross casement to left. Below, a
pair of 12-pane sashes similar to those at the front.
Lower set back rear range has dentillated eaves and two
12-pane sashes on each floor. At the rear, 2 hipped 2-storey
pavilions, the left one with a 12-pane sash. Central moulded
round-cornered doorway with stencilled pattern, dated 1867.
(Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire: Williamson E:
Harmondsworth: 1979-: 171).

Listing NGR: SK5380661050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502344

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Old House Care and Repair