Corn Exchange is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1973. Community centre.
Corn Exchange
- WRENN ID
- muffled-oriel-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1973
- Type
- Community centre
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HAVERHILL
TL6645 WITHERSFIELD ROAD 816-1/5/28 (West side) 09/05/73 Corn Exchange
GV II
Corn Exchange, now community centre and offices. 1889 by Frank Whitmore. Red brick with moulded brick details and slate roof replacing original glazed roof. EXTERIOR: single-storey gabled front to street behind single-storey flat-roofed narthex. Central entrance in narthex consisting of doorway recessed behind a basket-arched opening flanked by engaged columns with base fluting. One 2-light casement right and left under basket arches. Jambs, aprons and lintels of windows elaborated with moulded brick. Panelled and balustraded parapet. Main gable wall above with a triple-arched casement under a basket arch set in raised and pedimented field. Gable apex surmounted by double-curved pediment. Returns: 6 bays, articulated by pilasters. Windows are triple-arched casements under basket arches with jambs, aprons and lintels of moulded brick. INTERIOR: three arches at east end with Y-traceried heads. Pilasters to north and south walls. (Brown C: Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914: Ipswich: 1991-: 196).
Listing NGR: TL6699145749
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