Description

TL 4196 MARCH HIGH STREET
(East Side)

23/24 No. 86
10.10.1978

II

County Court, now club. Mid C19. White brick with hipped slate roof, with
elaborate modillion and dentil eaves cornice and frieze of patterned burnt
brickwork. Internal stacks with raised panels to sides and entablature with
projecting capping. Double pile plan. In Italianate style. Two storeys and
attic with main cornice of moulded band below six attic windows, and a band
between ground and first floors. Cut and moulded brickwork surrounds to six
round headed arches with raised key blocks to first floor windows. The four
centre windows are coupled. Band at impost height with frieze of burnt
brickwork below. Channelled rustication to ground floor with four similar
window openings flanked by two round headed arches in slightly projecting
bays with dentilled cornice. The right hand entry has a Royal Coat of Arms
in stucco above the double recessed archway leading to the courtroom. The
left hand carriageway with panelled doors and grille above. Interior: the
original staircase is still intact as is the coffered ceiling to the
courtroom, now obscured, and an archway on moulded corbels from robing room
to the Court.

Listing NGR: TL4166696321

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26511027

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas