86, High Street

TL 4196 MARCH HIGH STREET (East Side)

23/24 No. 86 10.10.1978

II

County Court, now club. Mid C19. White brick with hipped slate roof, with elaborate modillion and dentil eaves cornice and frieze of patterned burnt brickwork. Internal stacks with raised panels to sides and entablature with projecting capping. Double pile plan. In Italianate style. Two storeys and attic with main cornice of moulded band below six attic windows, and a band between ground and first floors. Cut and moulded brickwork surrounds to six round headed arches with raised key blocks to first floor windows. The four centre windows are coupled. Band at impost height with frieze of burnt brickwork below. Channelled rustication to ground floor with four similar window openings flanked by two round headed arches in slightly projecting bays with dentilled cornice. The right hand entry has a Royal Coat of Arms in stucco above the double recessed archway leading to the courtroom. The left hand carriageway with panelled doors and grille above. Interior: the original staircase is still intact as is the coffered ceiling to the courtroom, now obscured, and an archway on moulded corbels from robing room to the Court.

Listing NGR: TL4166696321