Description

LINCOLN

SK9771SE CORNHILL
1941-1/12/80 (North side)
02/10/69 Market Building
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNHILL
(North side)
Former Corn Exchange (MacDonald's,
market stalls, Ladbroke's Bingo))

GV II

Also known as: Corn Exchange CORNHILL.
Former corn exchange and market building, now restaurant,
covered market and bingo club. 1879. By Bellamy & Hardy.
Converted late C20. Brick with stone dressings, iron piers and
joists. Slate and lead roofs with 2 gable stacks and 3 gabled
ventilators. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: moulded plinth, first floor band, modillion cornice,
pedimented east gable. 2 and 3 storeys, 12 bays.
South side has to left an entrance bay, 3 storeys. Ground
floor has a C20 shopfront. The upper floors have 2 tripartite
sashes, those to the second floor with keystones. Between
them, the City arms. Above, an open pediment containing an
inscribed datestone. Very steep pitched pyramidal roof with a
flat top and wrought-iron crest. On each side, a louvred round
arched dormer with a crest. To right, shouldered ground floor
openings containing late C20 shopfronts, those to the right
under a late C20 glazed canopy. Above, a round arched blind
arcade with shaped keystones.
East gable has 2 round headed windows. North side has
pilasters and cogged eaves.
INTERIOR has in the main hall a laminated wood hammer beam
roof with iron spandrels and ornamented tie rods. Blind
arcaded walls. First floor carried on cast-iron columns.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 523).

Listing NGR: SK9759371058

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Market Building at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26668028

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)