7 AND 8 MARKET PLACE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1057773
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1983
List Entry Name:: 7 AND 8 MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address:: 7 AND 8 MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1057773
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1983
List Entry Name:: 7 AND 8 MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: 7 AND 8 MARKET PLACE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 7 AND 8 MARKET PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Frome
National Grid Reference:: ST 77661 48083

Details

1. 5363 MARKET PLACE (North-west side)

ST 7748 SE 5/368 GV

Nos 7 and 8

II

2. Front of circa 1830-40 to circa 1700 house. 2 storeys and attic. 5 bays. Ashlar. Band over ground floor. Heavy modillion cornice. Parapet with moulded cope and 4 inset square windows, 2 with marginally glazed casements, others blocked. Plate glass windows on 1st floor in moulded architraves. Pierced stone balconies. 2 modern shop fronts. Hipped slate roof with one flat top dormer left of centre above a parapet window. Side elevation rubble on rounded plinth. 1 small window in bolection surround. Rear irregular with 3 gables of earlier house, the outer 2 with 2-light ovolo mullion windows with drips. Interior: ground floor of No 7 has an egg and dart cornice; No 8 retains part of a late C17/early C18 staircase from 1st to 2nd floors.

Listing NGR: ST7766148083

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Legacy System number:: 266242
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.