Description

MARKET PLACE
1. (South-East Side)
1559 -----------------
Nos 27 & 28
SU 3521 4/12 9.9.70.

II GV

2.
Early C19. A good corner building carefully designed on a curved frontage.
3-storeys. Plain brick upper part on stone ground floor, with moulded wood
cornice. Brick parapet to end sections and lead covered blocking course to
centre part. Brickwork recently renewed in all sections.
The central part has 2 square sash windows and blocked centre opening of similar
size on 2nd floor. 3 tall sash windows on 1st floor. On ground floor, 5 bays,
each containing a modern window with marbel stall riser below, divided by
engaged Greek Doric columns with entablature over. Double pilasters are placed
at each corner. Former door in right hand bay has been removed.
The 2 corner sections are emphasised by a narrow projection of plain brick
with cornice broken forward over, and a recess with narrow arched panels on
each floor followed by slightly differing and projecting blocks. On right
hand (No 28) 2 square sash windows on 2nd floor, and on 1st floor, 2 large
sash windows in shallow arched recesses. On ground floor, which has been converted
into a shop, one modern window ti right hand with glazing bars in lower part;
doorway to left with pair of glazed modern double doors; wide rectangular
fanlight over of similar size to upper part of windows to right hand. On the
left hand the treatment is the same but with one window only to both upper
floors and with the entablature of tile central ground floor design carried
across on one original pilaster and on one wide
modern pilaster. 2 bays; one modern windows and in left hand corner a modern
8-panelled door with large rectangular fanlight over. The frieze is ornamented
with triglyphs over columns and pilasters.

All the listed buildings in Corn Market and Market Place form a group.

Listing NGR: SU3516821213

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525830

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)