The Market House

TIVERTON

SS9512 BAMPTON STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/114 (West side) 12/02/52 Nos.18, 20 AND 22 The Market House

GV II

A former market house which was rebuilt after 1731. Now converted to shops and offices. Flemish bond brick with blue headers: timber posts to arcade. Natural slate roof with lead rolls which is hipped at north end of front range. Front range truncated at south end and part of structure may survive at No.16 (qv). PLAN: probably 4 arcaded ranges around an open court. Arcade posts for front (east) range survive almost complete and some for the west and north ranges. Central court has been roofed over. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 7-window asymmetrical front with 6 arcade bays surviving intact. Tapering cylindrical timber posts have square section plinths, moulded bases and capitals. Wall plates supported on square section timbers with scroll stops above the capitals. First floor has plat band at window sill level. Deep eaves with a moulded eave cornice. First-floor windows renewed. 2-light-iron framed casements with square leaded panes are probably in their original frames except for right-hand window where the sill has been dropped. Converted bell turret has deep projecting moulded cornice and hipped roof with weather vane. Turret has a clock face dated 1731. INTERIOR: C20 shops incorporate some of the surviving arcade posts.

Listing NGR: SS9557812617