Description

MARKET PLACE
1.
1633
Nos 2 to 4 (consec)
(Part of premises occupied
by Field's and including
Waterloo House and
Barretts Flat)
SY 1287 1/259
II GV
2.
Circa 1810. 3 storey stucco faced houses. Later alterations with shop
fronts on ground floor. Nos 2 and 3 have parapet with coping swept up
either end and between them. No 4 instead of parapet, has a later wood
balustrade of turned balusters with terminal piers. Moulded cornice
This front is flanked above ground floor by partly fluted pilasters.
2 dormers to each house. Symmetrical fenestration: No 2 has 3 windows,
the outer ones tripartite recessed sashes, glazing bars intact. No 3
has 4 recessed camber headed sash windows, glazing bars intact, flat
arches with voussoirs and keystones. No 4 has 2 wide sash windows, glazing
bars intact, flush frames of fluted pilasters with moulded cornices breaking
forward over them. Mid and later C19 shop front on ground floor. No
2 has 2 large windows of 4 and 3-light with thin mullions, splayed lights
into marginal glazed door with fielded panel, rectangular marginal glazed
fanlight. Deep frieze and moulded cornice carried across front. No 3
has a side door (entrance to "Waterloo House") recessed, of 4 moulded
panels, female head knocker, large rectangular fanlight, panelled reveals
and panelled pilasters to front. Adjoining shop window of 3 large thin
mullioned lights, projects with frieze and cornice as on No 2. No 4 has
good mid C19 double shop front with 5-light windows bowed out from door.
Thin mullions and one extra light to right. Shallow rise is articulated
by small turned balusters. The shop door is glazed with one fielded panel,
rectangular fanlight. Soffit panelled out to front. To left and right
of front the frieze is supported by scrolled brackets with leaf ornament
and "Medusa" heads in caps over. The frieze is obscured by blind case.
The moulded cornice with anthemion band has a row of rosette blocks below
it with pendent finials.

Nos 2 to 4 (consec) form an important group in Market Place together
with No 1 Church Street.

Listing NGR: SY1260287280

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576401

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