Chapter 2 Bar and 7, Market Place

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MALTON MARKET PLACE (north west side) No.5 Chapter 2 Bar and No 7

(Formerly listed as No.5 The King's Head and No 7)

10/06/74

GV II Inn and shop. Mid C18, probably with earlier origins, re-roofed and altered in c1913 following fire. Red brick in English garden-wall bond, front to No.5 rendered and largely obscured by ivy; carriage arch of stone; timber eaves cornice to No.7; pantile roof with coped gable and vistigial kneeler to right, and brick end and centre stacks. Two storey and attic; four window front.

No.5 has plain doorcase with panelled double doors. To left of doorway, canted bay window with small-pane sashes; to right, unequal thirty-pane sash; both windows have painted stone sills. Further right is an elliptical carriage arch of rusticated voussoirs. On first floor, three sixteen-pane sashes; in attic, two oriel windows beneath barge-boarded gables.

No.7 has shop front of panelled pilasters and moulded cornice on carved brackets; recessed glazed door to left of four-light canted bay window over panelled riser. Door and windows have cambered transoms. First floor window is four-pane sash with stone sill and wedge lintel. Flat-topped dormer with sash window in attic.

Chapter 2 Bar (formerlyThe King's Head) has associations with Edmund Burke, secretary to Lord Rockingham from 1756, and MP for Malton, 1780-94.

Listing NGR: SE7851971714