Former Corn Exchange
Former Corn Exchange, 31, Market Place, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1DY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102132
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Corn Exchange
- Statutory Address:
- Former Corn Exchange, 31, Market Place, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1DY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102132
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Corn Exchange
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Corn Exchange, 31, Market Place, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1DY
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:
- Former Corn Exchange, 31, Market Place, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1DY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1836329071
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 October 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 1829 SW
1/339
MARKET PLACE (West side)
No 31 (Former Corn Exchange)
(Formerly listed as No 32 (Former Corn Exchange))
GV
II
Corn exchange. 1853. Red brick with stucco facade; Welsh slate roofs. Corn exchange hall built to rear of offices to front. Two-storey facade in Mannerist Classical style. Two large ground-floor windows with glazing bars, are flanked by Tuscan half-columns; central door architrave, with chamfered jambs and projecting keyblock, is set in wide Tuscan pilaster; Tuscan end pilasters to carved brackets flanking plain frieze with egg-and-dart cornice. Rusticated quoin strips to moulded parapet shaped over central Venetian window with margin-light sashes; fielded infill panels. Facade crowned by elaborate timber bell cupola. Hall to rear has panelled door with decorative fanlight, and plate glass to glazed clerestorey and lantern.
Interior: stick-baluster staircase to front. Vestibule to left of hall lit by glazed dome. Hall has cast-iron columns to lattice girders and springing for wrought-iron roof of c.1895: sickle-girder trusses with semi-circular arched ribs set within upper tier of trusses to lantern. Clock to rear presented in 1853 by farmers attending market.
Listing NGR: TL1836329071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161604
- 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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