The Old Market Hall
THE OLD MARKET HALL, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082439
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Market Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD MARKET HALL, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082439
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Market Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD MARKET HALL, MARKET SQUARE
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:
- THE OLD MARKET HALL, MARKET SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tenbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 59498 68222
Details
TENBURY CP MARKET SQUARE (centre) SO 5868 - 5968 8/114 The Old Market Hall
GV II
Former market hall. Early to mid-C19. Brick with blue brick dressings and plain tiled conical roof with overhanging eaves on shaped brackets and raised ridge, louvred copper section with terracotta ridge tiles (and formerly with end finials). Oval plan. Single storey with chamfered plinth. Gothick style. Upper half of walls occupied by continuous row of 4-light traceried windows with square heads and projecting blue brick sill courses. There is an entrance at the south-west and north-east ends; both have cusped ogee-arched heads which are inserted into the lower part of the window. The south-west entrance has a set of double doors whilst the north-east entrance has a pair of gates. Interior: the floor is laid with blue brick herringbone paving and there are two semi-circular benches (an outer and an inner one) on cast iron supports either side of the central through-passage. (BoE, p 279).
Listing NGR: SO5949868222
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150805
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 279
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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