Description

BOSTON

TF3244SE MARKET PLACE
716-1/7/104 (East side)
14/02/75 No.24

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.24 AND 25 MARKET PLACE.
Shop, now offices. C15 origins, altered late C18, late C19,
and C20. Render and stucco. Slate roof and single stack behind
parapet.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3-bay front with sill bands, moulded
dentilled cornice, balustraded parapet. To ground floor a late
C19 shop front with pilasters and brackets to moulded angled
fascia. To 1st floor 3 plain sashes with moulded surrounds and
small panels below. To 2nd floor 3 small sashes, also with
moulded surrounds on tabs. The lower rear wing has, along
Grants Lane, the doors and windows of the small corn trading
offices used C19 in conjunction with the market.
INTERIOR: retains vestiges of earlier C15 timber framed walls
retained inside.
HISTORY: the corn market was held in front of the Peacock
Hotel on the site adjacent, now occupied by Boots the Chemist.

Listing NGR: TF3282144062

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668385

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]