The Corn Exchange

LICHFIELD

SK1109NE CONDUIT STREET 1094-1/5/74 (South West side) 06/03/70 The Corn Exchange (Formerly Listed as: CONDUIT STREET Corn Hall (Market Hall and Institute))

GV II

Includes: No.55 BORE STREET. Corn exchange, market hall and savings bank, now shops, restaurant and office. 1849-50. By T Johnson and Son. Brick with ashlar dressings; fishscale tile roof with brick stacks. Tudor style. 2 storeys; 7-window range, with recessed 2-window range to left. 7-bay arcade with 4-centre arches with keys; 1st floor sill course; top stone-coped parapet with round projections, left end shaped gable, right end has octagonal pavilion with parapet with shaped gablets and round pinnacles and pyramidal roof. Arcade has brick groin vault with transverse arches, inner 4-centred arched openings with late C20 shop fronts, entrance to left end. 1st floor has double-chamfered-mullioned windows with leaded glazing, most of 2 lights, that to left end of 3 lights with round-headed upper light, penultimate window to right of 4 lights with transom and 2 round-headed upper lights, octagon has windows of 2 round-headed lights to angled faces. Square panels with raised black letters: THE CORN EXCHANGE. Recessed range has window originally of 3 lights, mid C20 shop front to corner; 1st floor has canted oriel of 1:3:1 lights with round-headed lights, 3-light window to left, all ovolo-mullioned; dated 1849; shaped gable and cross-axial stack. Right return has similar details and C20 single-storey addition; lettering: MARKET HALL. Left return has shop front with entrance to left with 4-centred head with cornice, overlight and glazed door; 1st floor has single light and 3-light window; lettering: SAVINGS BANK; parapet and C20 dormer. INTERIOR: jack arches to shops; hammer beam roof to 1st floor hall. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.195; Howard Clayton: Cathedral City: Lichfield: 1977-: P.71-2).

Listing NGR: SK1179809563