52 Market Place, 10 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Commercial premises.

52 Market Place, 10 High Street

WRENN ID
rough-vestry-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Commercial premises
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

52 Market Place and 10 High Street is a commercial building with accommodation above, constructed around 1800 and later altered in the 20th and 21st centuries. The building is made of brick and painted stucco and has four storeys arranged in a rectangular plan, with frontages facing Market Place to the north and High Street to the east.

The north elevation facing Market Place is three bays wide, while the east elevation onto High Street is four bays wide, both designed in a consistent neoclassical style. The ground floor is painted dark green, with window bays separated by simple pilasters. The southernmost bay of the east façade features a blind doorway set into a channel rusticated portal. The ground floor windows are likely 20th-century replacements with fixed two-pane glazing. The entrance to the restaurant is located in the third bay of the north elevation, featuring a modern timber door with a frosted overlight.

At the first and second floors, the bays are separated by giant order Ionic pilasters that rise to a stucco entablature, with the cornice forming the cill of the third-floor windows. The first and second floors have six-over-six timber sash windows, while the third floor has shorter six-pane sash windows. Fluted Doric colonettes are fitted into the window jambs at the first-floor level, and the second-floor windows on the east elevation are enclosed by architraves. The third-floor attic features geometric incised dividing piers and an incised frieze, while the ground floor bays are similarly divided by panelled piers. The main entrance is located within a rusticated archway facing High Street and includes a patterned semi-circular fanlight.

Inside, the ground floor does not appear to retain any original architectural features and connects to the ground floor of 1-5 King Street, creating one continuous restaurant space.

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