3-9, Corn Market

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