28 And 29, Market Place

WANTAGE MARKET PLACE SU3987NE (West side) 9/120 Nos.28 and 29 22/04/50

GV II

Shown on O.S. map as Nos. 28 & 29, Market Place. House, now shops. Dated 1708 on doorway of left side wall; front remodelled c.1880, Flemish bond brick with flared headers; limestone quoins and dressings; late C19 banded club and plain-tile roof with crested ridge tiles; brick stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Late C19 shop front with C20 doors and decorative cast-iron parapet. Stone lintels with decorative keystones, chamfered rusticated architraves, to late C19 sashes. Early C18 cyma-moulded plinth and storey band; chamfered limestone quoins. Late C19 bracketed eaves and 3 gabled dormers with cast-iron balconies, crested ridge tiles and finials. Hipped roof; left internal stack. Left side wall has gauged brick flat arches over late C19 sashes; large late C19 window with cornice adjoining doorway, with Tuscan pilasters and acanthus leaf brackets to scrolled pediment with coat of arms and date 17/08 either side of dropped key in tympanum inscribed with letter K. Interior: Central dog-leg with landing staircase with barley-sugar balusters on open string, fine fret-cut brackets. Fluted newel post and panelled dado.

Listing NGR: SU3972687914