3 And 4, Market Street

BRADFORD-ON-AVON ST 8261 MARKET STREET 1/10003 Nos 3 and 4 GV II

Built as Police Station and offices, part of the design for the Town Hall of 1854-5 by Thomas Fuller of Bath. Now part of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas More (qv). Limestone ashlar with hipped Welsh slate roof and stone stacks. Rectangular plan with rear stair turrets. 3 storeys; symmetrical 4-window range. Free Domestic Tudor style. Scrolled inscriptions, reading POLICE AND SUPERINTENDENT, above arched doorways with decorative strap hinges to plank doors. Chamfered mullioned and transomed windows, of 3 lights to first floor and 2 lights to ground and top storeys, the latter interrupting cornice which is continued to former town hall (qv); nowy-headed pediments to outer windows, surmounting parapet. Parapet returned to side elevations, and ramped up to stacks. Similar fenestration to sides and rear, the rear with hipped roofs to two stair turrets. Interior not inspected. Part of a remarkable composition by Fuller, holding an important position in the centre of the town.

Listing NGR: ST8258461021