Description

LICHFIELD

SK1109NE CONDUIT STREET
1094-1/5/74 (South West side)
06/03/70 The Corn Exchange
(Formerly Listed as:
CONDUIT STREET
Corn Hall (Market Hall and
Institute))

GV II

Includes: No.55 BORE STREET.
Corn exchange, market hall and savings bank, now shops,
restaurant and office. 1849-50. By T Johnson and Son. Brick
with ashlar dressings; fishscale tile roof with brick stacks.
Tudor style.
2 storeys; 7-window range, with recessed 2-window range to
left. 7-bay arcade with 4-centre arches with keys; 1st floor
sill course; top stone-coped parapet with round projections,
left end shaped gable, right end has octagonal pavilion with
parapet with shaped gablets and round pinnacles and pyramidal
roof.
Arcade has brick groin vault with transverse arches, inner
4-centred arched openings with late C20 shop fronts, entrance
to left end. 1st floor has double-chamfered-mullioned windows
with leaded glazing, most of 2 lights, that to left end of 3
lights with round-headed upper light, penultimate window to
right of 4 lights with transom and 2 round-headed upper
lights, octagon has windows of 2 round-headed lights to angled
faces. Square panels with raised black letters: THE CORN
EXCHANGE. Recessed range has window originally of 3 lights,
mid C20 shop front to corner; 1st floor has canted oriel of
1:3:1 lights with round-headed lights, 3-light window to left,
all ovolo-mullioned; dated 1849; shaped gable and cross-axial
stack.
Right return has similar details and C20 single-storey
addition; lettering: MARKET HALL. Left return has shop front
with entrance to left with 4-centred head with cornice,
overlight and glazed door; 1st floor has single light and
3-light window; lettering: SAVINGS BANK; parapet and C20
dormer.
INTERIOR: jack arches to shops; hammer beam roof to 1st floor
hall.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.195; Howard Clayton: Cathedral City: Lichfield:
1977-: P.71-2).

Listing NGR: SK1179809563

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Corn Exchange at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26504960

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Recommended Books

• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)