16 Corn Market
16, Corn Market, Wimborne, BH21 1JL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119600
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 16 Corn Market
- Statutory Address:
- 16, Corn Market, Wimborne, BH21 1JL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119600
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 16 Corn Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16, Corn Market, Wimborne, BH21 1JL
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:
- 16, Corn Market, Wimborne, BH21 1JL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wimborne Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 00892 99992
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 January 2024 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
SZ 0099 NE
2/11
CORNMARKET (north side)
No 16
(Formerly listed as No 15, previously listed as Oddfellows' Hall)
14.6.52
GV
II
Dated 1758. Brick walls, tiled roof. Two storeys, gable end to Cornmarket. Ground storey originally open, with round brick arches carried on brick piles with stone caps - arches now infilled. Elevation facing Cornmarket has arches infilled with a pair of modern doors. Plat band at first floor level. Venetian window to first floor, - centre light glazed, - side lights blocked; moulded architrave and entablature. Projecting brick pilasters at each end of the facade, with moulded brick caps. Plat band at ceiling level. Flemish style gable with stone inscribed - "This edifice was erected with the affiliance of the neighbouring gentlemen, by the Friendly Society of this town, for their life. 1758".
Side - (east) elevation has four arches on the ground floor, - three now filled with double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, - one with a later door. First floor has four double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, Moulded brick modillion cornice to eaves. Internally, the C18 staircase survives, but the balusters have been covered. The main upper hall retains its cornice, but has been divided by modern partitions.
RCHM Monument 40.
Listing NGR: SZ0088699996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107034
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975)
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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