3 AND 4, MARKET STREET
3 AND 4, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036172
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 4, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 4, MARKET STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-04-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/00461/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036172
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 4, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 AND 4, MARKET STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 4, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradford-on-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST8258461021
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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