MARKET HOUSE

MARKET HOUSE, MARKET SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078631
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:: MARKET HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MARKET HOUSE, MARKET SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078631
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:: MARKET HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MARKET HOUSE, MARKET SQUARE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MARKET HOUSE, MARKET SQUARE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Newent
National Grid Reference:: SO 72255 25831

Details

SO 7225-7325 NEWENT MARKET SQUARE

13/165 Market House

2.10.54

GV II

Market House; late C16 or early C17, restored 1864 for R.F.Onslow. Heavy timber posts on stone bases, ground floor; close-studded timber-framing, white-rendered infill above: tiled roof. 3-bay hall, small semi-octagonal extension one end: 2 storeys. Ground floor slight chamfer to posts, row down centre of building, curved braces to bressumers: posts to semi-octagon much smaller section. First floor close studding, no centre rail: straight braces corner posts to bressumer: 4-light timber window, flat head, trefoil- heads to lancets. Gable over centre north-east face: raised on small, square panels, curved corner decoration. Diagonal timbers form diamond-set square pattern,carved bargeboards, timber finial, iron weathervane. Extension 1 lancet per face, hipped roof. Right return as north-east face, but heavy jowls to posts: gable close studded up to collar, V-struts above. Wooden steps up to external door south-west face. Internally, open below. Upper hall boarded, panelled sloping ceiling: cambered tie-beams to 2 trusses; measured drawing exhibited in hall shows 2 pairs angle struts, collar and V-struts over. Extension forms separate room; added 1864. Photograph of c1840 painting in hall shows exterior largely unaltered by restoration. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument, AM No 114. (Kelly's, Gloucestershire Directory, 1885.)

Listing NGR: SO7225525831

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Legacy System number:: 125698
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Kellys Directory' in Gloucestershire, (1885)

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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.