Market House
MARKET HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072906
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Market House
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072906
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Market House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET HOUSE, HIGH 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:
- MARKET HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Wyre (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Garstang
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 49232 45196
Details
GARSTANG HIGH STREET SD 44 NE 4/114 Market House, 16.12.1952 GV II Town Hall, now used as shops and club, 1755-64. Brick with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays, with chamfered quoins, band, and cornice. Ground floor has 3 round arches linked by impost band. The outer ones are smaller, now contain windows, and have keystones. In the middle is a wide entrance with keystone and alternately projecting voussoirs. The 1st floor windows are sashed with glazing bars and are linked by a sill band. The outer ones have stone surrounds, pulvinated friezes, and cornices. The central one has an architrave, pulvinated frieze, and pediment. A plaque within an apron commemorates the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. Above the central bay and set back behind the cornice is a timber cupola with clock. Each return wall has one bay treated in a manner similar to the outer bays of the front facade.
Listing NGR: SD4923245196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185508
- 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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