Description

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5180 GUILDHALL YARD
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Guildhall Cottage
SX 8060 NW 1/44A
SX 8060 SW 1/44A 7.1.52.

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Circa 1897, incorporating at the east end part of the Guildhall and prison buildings
of circa 1624 (see Guildhall). 1½ storeys. 3 bays on south side; 2 window gabled
front to Guildhall Yard on east side. Welsh slate roof with rendered masonry stacks.
Devonian limestone, random rubble, partly rendered. 3 gabled dormers, slate-hung
with decorated slate barge-boards. East bay and gabled east return with jettied,
slate-hung 1st floor; carried on corner by granite columns taken from the Exchange
built in 1616 and pulled down in 1878. Ground floor of south front with 3 light
casement windows and segmental arched doorway with modern door. 1st floor of east
front with 3 light casement windows with leaded lights. Old doorways at east end
in recessed entrance to former prison. Oak framed doorways with ogee mouldings.
Board and batten doors with wrought iron pegs and wrought iron reinforcement bars
to prison door. Prison windows to ground floor on east return with timber surrounds,
lintols and wrought iron grills. 1st floor plaque on return inscribed with list
of benefactors and building date 1624.

Listing NGR: SX8021060498

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26529318

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas