Description

MINEHEAD

SS9646 THE PARADE
900-1/3/90 (North side)
28/10/76 The Market House

GV II

Market House. Dated 1902. By WJ Tamlyn. Coursed red sandstone
and freestone, banded to the ground floor and central gable,
tarred roof with decoratively banded stacks to gable ends.
T-shaped plan: council room and surveyor's office built over
market hall. Free Style with mostly Northern Renaissance
influences.
2 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. A central
diagonally-set square wooden cupola has a clock and
weathervane. A cartouche dated 1902 over a truncated gable to
the central range has a semicircular-arched opening and is
flanked by tall diagonally-set finials and a balustraded
parapet. The central window to the first floor has square
lights of small panes to the top and curved sides and a single
semicircular-arched central pane. This is flanked by small
semicircular-arched windows below the finials and freestone
dressings to triple-arched windows to the far sides, all with
small panes. The ground floor has steps up to c1970 glazed
doors under a semi-cicular arch and a balustraded porch with a
broken pediment and free-standing columns flanked by bull's
eye windows level with the capitals. To the far sides are wide
rusticated and banded semicircular arched entrances to the
market. The 4-light windows which flank the porch have c1970
glazing.
The market hall, to the rear, is lit by a clerestory and has a
large semicircular-arched window with small panes to the rear
gable end; C20 additions.
INTERIOR: the market hall, to the sides and rear of the
central office block, has a raised glazed clerestory to the
ridge and thin metal ties to the main metal rafters. The rear
of the office block, inside the market hall, has a 2-light
oriel window with a hipped roof to the first floor, flanked by
wide semicircular brick arches with keystones resting on
rounded brick piers with moulded caps. The windows to the rear
are described above. Stone-flagged floor.
HISTORY: the market, established in 1461, was held around the
old market cross on approximately its present site in Market
House Lane. The old market house building, on the present site
was destroyed by fire in 1791.
(Binding H: Minehead: A New History: Minehead: 1977-: 32 &
84).

Listing NGR: SS9683146236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Market House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26569109

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)