10 And 12, Market Street

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SZ0090SE MARKET STREET 958-1/17/92 (North West side) 14/06/54 Nos.10 AND 12

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Formerly known as: Nos.10, 10A AND 12 MARKET STREET. House, now divided into two, one an office. Dated on hopper 1762, divided late C18. Header bond brickwork with a stone plinth, stucco quoins and dressings, brick gable stacks and tiled roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 3:2-window range. Plinth, rusticated quoins to a moulded, bracketed eaves cornice; paired round-arched doorways with attached columns to entablature blocks and open pediments, the original one to No.10 with fluted columns decorated with urns, radial fanlight and panelled reveals and soffits; late C18 inserted doorway to No.12 is narrower with acanthus leaf capitals, to 6-panel doors; left-hand bootscraper. Split keys in gauged brick segmental heads to 6/6-pane sashes, and 2 hipped dormers with eared cheeks. A central leaded hopper is inscribed WB/1762. Rear has keyed cambered heads to flush sashes, with a central lower stair light. INTERIOR includes a through passage divided by a semicircular arch to a rear dogleg stair with column-on-vase balusters, ground-floor right-hand fully-panelled room with niches flanking C20 fireplace, and egg and dart cornice; upper floor not inspected. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 230).

Listing NGR: SZ0092590489