Description

MARKET STREET
SE 0925 SW
(West side)
679-/16/10042
Nos. 2, 4, 6, 8 & 10
Palantine Chambers
GV II
Includes: No. 9 RUSSELL STREET.
Office building with 5 shops. 1894. Designed by W H D Horsfall. Steel-flamed with
ashlar cladding and a slate roof 4 storey, 8 bays. Ground floor has from left to right a cart
entrance, a double shopfront and a single shopfront, then the office entrance and 2 further
single shop fronts. All with dividing rusticated pilasters with bracket tops and fascia
boards between. Most of the shops retain some of their original architectural features, but
BACKHOUSES retains its curved shop windows and all its original features. Above the
upper 8 bays are arranged A:B:B:B:A:B:B, with a cross casement at A and tripartite
windows with a central cross casement at B, on the first and second floors. Each of these
bays is divided by a pilaster rusticated on the first floor and half fluted on the second, all
topped by a cornice with brackets. Above the same arrangement with a 2-light casement
at A, and a tripartite window with a central 2-light casement topped with a pediment at
B. Each bay is divided by a plain pilaster.

Listing NGR: SE0937225198

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615183

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings