Lesser Market

Date:
23 Jul 2000
Location:
Lesser Market, Wote Street, Basingstoke, Basingstoke And Deane, Hampshire, RG21 7NW
Reference:
IOE01/02463/29
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SU 63-6451 (part) BASINGSTOKE WOTE STREET

3/46 Lesser Market -

- II

1885. Single storeyed stucco front of 5 bays, comprising 4 rectangular openings for shop windows with a narrower archway at the second bay (from the South) and footway. A plain low block parapet has a raised central feature in the form of a lettered panel with a pediment above and supporting scrolls on each side. A large cornice moulding (including bold dentils, has a plain frieze below and an architrave barrel of carved and coloured 'fruit' ornament; this design being repeated as pilaster strips between the openings. Plate glass windows and plain doors. Slate roof. This structure is prominent and links listed buildings. The facade masks a later C20 three-storey building of no interest.

Listing NGR: SU6380151936

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0242 IOE Records taken by M Bridger; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr M. Bridger. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Bridger, M.

Rights Holder: Bridger, M.

Keywords

Slate, Stucco, Victorian Market, Commercial, Shop, Arch, Monument (By Form)