Corn Exchange Public Library
CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037457
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Corn Exchange Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037457
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Corn Exchange Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, MARKET HILL
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:
- CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET HILL
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, MARKET HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sudbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 87352 41252
Details
1. MARKET HILL
1692 (South Side) Corn Exhange (Public Library) TL 8741 3/104
II* GV
2. An elaborate Victorian stone building, 1841 by H E Kendall with a facade of four columns linked by a heavy entablature and each column surmounted by a pinnacle in form of a sheaf of corn. There is balustrading between the two outer columns. There is a large central arched doorway window with elaborate fanlight and an arched window with elaborate headwork between the outer columns each side. The centre front is ramped up above the level of the balustrading each side and is surmounted by a group of labourers, sickles and sheaves. Interior fitted out for library purposes. History of Sudbury, Grimwood and Kay, page 87.
All the listed buildings in Market Hill (South Side) form a group.
Listing NGR: TL8735241252
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 276092
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Grimwood, , Kay, , History of Sudbury, (), 87
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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