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3-9, Corn Market

A Grade II Listed Building in Pontefract, Wakefield

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6916 / 53°41'29"N

Longitude: -1.3133 / 1°18'48"W

OS Eastings: 445440

OS Northings: 421905

OS Grid: SE454219

Mapcode National: GBR MT8R.GD

Mapcode Global: WHDC6.SGSS

Plus Code: 9C5WMMRP+JM

Entry Name: 3-9, Corn Market

Listing Date: 3 March 1970

Last Amended: 15 November 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1299908

English Heritage Legacy ID: 342656

ID on this website: 101299908

Location: Pontefract, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF8

County: Wakefield

Electoral Ward/Division: Pontefract North

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Pontefract

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Pontefract St Giles with St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


PONTEFRACT CORN MARKET
SE 4521 NW
(south-west side)
7/17
Nos 3-9 (odd)(formerly
29.7.50 listed under Beast Fair
3.3..70 as Premises occupied by
Freeman, Hardy & Willis;
Makins; S F Emery and
Martyn North and unoccu-
pied former premises of
Timothy White.)

GV II

Houses, now 3 shops with surgery and offices. Probably C17, re-fronted in late C19,
with C20 alterations. Red/brown brick in English garden wall bond; Welsh slate roof.
2 storeys and loft; 1:2:2:1:2 first-floor windows. On ground floor, to far left,
passage opening leading through to Swales Yard Cottages (qv) at rear; below 6th
window, recessed part-glazed door; C20 shop fronts not of special interest. First-
floor windows: late C19 sashes, replaced by C20 casements in first 3 bays, with
voussoired wedge lintels, and with C20 artificial stone quoined jambs in first 3
bays. Front wall rises up as coped parapet in front of eaves of steeply-pitched
roof, which has four dormer windows, 3 gabled and one with flat pent roof. Brick
ridge stack between 3rd and 4th bays. The 1968 list description records"a Cl7 open
hearth fireplace boarded up and completely concealed" in No 3; it is still concealed.
Other interiors not inspected.


Listing NGR: SE4544021905

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