Description

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ST5973SE OLD MARKET STREET, Old Market
901-1/12/1645 (North side)
08/01/59 No.42
(Formerly Listed as:
OLD MARKET STREET
(North side)
Nos.36-40, 40 AND 42 (Even))

GV II

House, now office. Early C18, restored c1980. Render with
limestone dressings, a brick side stack and a pantile hipped
roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys;
3-window range. C18 shop front, rusticated pilasters to a deep
modillion eaves cornice which returns at the ends. The fine
early C19 shop front has two 8-pane bow windows either side of
a 2-leaf door, with fluted timber pilasters to a dentil
cornice which bows out above the doorway, narrow first-floor
6/6-pane sashes beneath raised pediments, segmental to the
centre, and shorter, keyed second-floor 6/6-pane sashes, all
in flush boxes. Hipped dormer with casements, to a roof with
shallow sprocketed eaves. INTERIOR: largely remodelled c1980;
rear ground-floor fireplace set in an ashlar niche, beside a
cast-iron safe with fluted stone sides, and 2-leaf doors
above. Truncated to 2 storeys by 1974, and restored c1980.

Listing NGR: ST5972673209

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502649

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)