10, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
10, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- strange-bastion-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Inn
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 10 Market Place, formerly known as the Greyhound Hotel, is an 18th-century inn that has been converted into an antique shop. It was designed by Nathaniel Ireson and is constructed from local stone rubble that has been rendered and colorwashed, featuring printed ashlar dressings. The building has a plain clay tile roof behind a parapet and brick chimney stacks.
It stands three stories tall and has five bays. Architectural details include a plinth, rusticated quoins, a cornice, and a parapet. The windows are 12-pane sash windows, most of which have been renewed, set in architraved surrounds with triple keystones. The late 20th-century shopfront is located in bays four and five, while bay three features a carriage archway leading to the yard. This archway has a flat arch with triple keystones, flanked by fluted Doric pilasters that support a plain entablature with metopes at the ends. Above the archway is a shallow oriel window with three 12-pane sashes and a lead flat roof, which includes a Royal Crest commemorating a one-night stay by Queen Victoria as a child.
An elaborate wrought iron bracket for a hanging sign is located above the entrance. The parapet has smaller quoins and a pitched center section that features an oval plaque with a greyhound, flanked by pilasters. The center panel and the ends of the parapet are topped with pineapple vase finials. Inside the carriageway, there are two six-panel doors with architraves to the left, and further back on the right are two single-storey bay windows. The building is first mentioned in parish records from 1743 and was advertised as 'new built' in 1760. The Greyhound may represent the arms of the Churchey family of The Dogs, Tout Hill.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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