Market Building

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