7 AND 9, MARKET PLACE

7 AND 9, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068862
Date first listed:
16-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
7 AND 9, MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address:
7 AND 9, MARKET PLACE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068862
Date first listed:
16-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
7 AND 9, MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address 1:
7 AND 9, MARKET PLACE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
7 AND 9, MARKET PLACE

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

County:
Essex
District:
Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:
Great Dunmow
National Grid Reference:
TL6269422053

Details

TL 6222
7/81

GREAT DUNMOW
MARKET PLACE (W.side)
No. 7 and No. 9

GV
II

Shops and flats, former houses. C15 or earlier. 2 storey timber framed and
plastered, with peg tile roof hipped at N end and hipped with gablet at S.
Front has 5 double hung sashes with moulded surrounds and small panes on first
floor, with fragments of old pargetting. Ground floor has from N to S, a C19
bay window with C20 alterations, a late C18 open pedimented doorcase with thin
pilasters and brackets and a good late C19 projecting shopfront with deep 'V'
shaped glazing bars. No. 7 has an early C19 door surround to passage and a
C20 shopfront. Off-centre red brick stack in front roof slope. The N end has a
range of 2 storey attached outbuildings, 2 with peg tile roofs and the
westernmost has a slate gabled roof. These have some black weatherboarding
and large carriage doors. At the S end are further rear extensions of 2 storeys
in part render and part brickwork with peg tile gabled roofs and 2 big gabled
dormers in N side. In between, the back has a long peg tile cat-slide
extension. The interior reveals evidence for 2 former houses, both of the 'hall
and single crosswing' format. That to the N has fragments of service wall and
service door arrangement and had an included cross passage with spere openings.
Richly moulded, inserted floor of probable late C15. Other crosswing/hall is
probably of late C15 with later inserted floor.

Listing NGR: TL6269422053

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
353326
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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