Description

MARKET PLACE
1.
1594 (Cheese Market)
No 25 (Midland Bank)
[Formerly listed as
Nos 19 to 25 (odd)]
SU 1430 SW 1/312 28.2.52.
II GV
2.
Corner site with Minster Street qv.
Late C18. 3 storeys red brick with moulded stone cornice. The ground floor
has been altered sympathetically for Bank with rusticated stone skin with
Doric pilasters and entablature across front, the windows set in recesses
with flanking columns in antis. 4 windows to Minster Street on upper floors,
recessed sashes, glazing bars intact, on 1st floor breaking through deep
stone facing over ground floor cornice. Return front to Cheese Market similar
ground floor treatment. 6 bays. 2 to left with windows as on Minster Street.
The 4 right hard bays incorporate former separate house also of red brick,
bracketed cornice and parapet. 4 windows 2nd floor, 3 on 1st floor and one
blocked, flush architrave framed sashes, glazing bars intact. The entrance
is contemporary with alteration to Bank, set across corner and recessed
under it with elaborate scroll carved brackets supporting corner.

Nos 25 to 32 (consec) and the Market Hall form a group.

Listing NGR: SU1435430016

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550972

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)