27 And 28, Market Place

MARKET PLACE 1. (South-East Side) 1559 ----------------- Nos 27 & 28 SU 3521 4/12 9.9.70.

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1. Early C19. A good corner building carefully designed on a curved frontage. 3-storeys. Plain brick upper part on stone ground floor, with moulded wood cornice. Brick parapet to end sections and lead covered blocking course to centre part. Brickwork recently renewed in all sections. The central part has 2 square sash windows and blocked centre opening of similar size on 2nd floor. 3 tall sash windows on 1st floor. On ground floor, 5 bays, each containing a modern window with marbel stall riser below, divided by engaged Greek Doric columns with entablature over. Double pilasters are placed at each corner. Former door in right hand bay has been removed. The 2 corner sections are emphasised by a narrow projection of plain brick with cornice broken forward over, and a recess with narrow arched panels on each floor followed by slightly differing and projecting blocks. On right hand (No 28) 2 square sash windows on 2nd floor, and on 1st floor, 2 large sash windows in shallow arched recesses. On ground floor, which has been converted into a shop, one modern window ti right hand with glazing bars in lower part; doorway to left with pair of glazed modern double doors; wide rectangular fanlight over of similar size to upper part of windows to right hand. On the left hand the treatment is the same but with one window only to both upper floors and with the entablature of tile central ground floor design carried across on one original pilaster and on one wide modern pilaster. 2 bays; one modern windows and in left hand corner a modern 8-panelled door with large rectangular fanlight over. The frieze is ornamented with triglyphs over columns and pilasters. All the listed buildings in Corn Market and Market Place form a group.

Listing NGR: SU3516821213