Description

MOUNTSORREL

SK 51 NE
3/41
11.12.75

MARKET PLACE (West Side)

Nos. 46-50 (even)

GV
II

Bank and 2 shops. c1800, with C17 rear section. Red brick with brick plinth
and dentilled eaves and tile roof with brick ridge and right end stacks. To
rear, a timber framed section which is granite rubble stone clad and which
has a Swithland slate roof. 3 storeys of 3 3-light centre-opening casements
with top lights. Similar on 2nd floor but without top lights. Gauged brick
lintels. On ground floor a C20 shop window to left and a pair of C19 shop fronts
with doors to right of each under same cornice and with ornamental pilasters
at the sides. On right end facing the Market Cross (q.v.) a small C20 window
and on 1st floor a Venetian window with 3-light horizontal sliding sash. Over
this on 2nd floor a blocked semi-circular window, some of the curving glazing
bars remaining. On rear section a small 1st floor 1-light window. This section
adjoins, and was originally part of Nos. 1 and 3 Watling Street (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SK5819515039

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26522075

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)