Description

WITNEY MARKET SQUARE
SP3509N (East side)
10/178 Corn Exchanq
06/02/70
GV II

Corn Exchange, now offices. Built 1863. Squared and coursed limestone, with
rusticated pilaster strips and dressings; gabled Welsh-slate roof; stone end
stacks. Italian Classical style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range.
Semi-circular arched doorway with rusticated surrounds to panelled double-leaf
doors; balcony above supported by 2 huge brackets with carved flower swags. Door
flanked by tripartite plate-glass sashes with rusticated segmental-arched
architraves. First-floor cross-windows set in moulded stone architraves with
bracketed cornices and central segmental pediment. Modillioned stone cornice
beneath low parapet. Consoles flank central open-pedimented gable with ball
finials and lunette. Keyed raised architraves to right side wall and long rear
wing of one-storey, 5-window range, interior: mid C19 stairs, dado in room to
left, and braced queen-post roof in first-floor chamber.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.846).

Listing NGR: SP3564109638

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Corn Exchange at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26577476

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments