37 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
37 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135459
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 37 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 37 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135459
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 37 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 37 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45584 21856
Details
PONTEFRACT MARKET PLACE SE 4521 NE (south-east side) 8/41 Nos 37 and 39 GV II
Emporium, now shop. 1894. For England's furnishing and ironmongers' store. Biege terracotta made by Leeds Fireclay Company, probably originally facing a cast-iron framed building, now replaced by a late C20 building; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 1:1:1:1 bays. Third bay forms shop entrance, with round-arched portal on ground floor and projecting canted bay on floors above; flanked on ground floor by C20 plate-glass shop windows, above which are basket-arched first-floor windows, and 2-light second-floor windows. Above is a frieze, divided into panels by capitals above divisions below treated as pilasters, and panels are cast with lettering "ENGLAND" "COMPLETE" "HOUSE"' "FURNISHER", except over canted bay which has scrolled foliage. Rich cornice with egg-and-dart motif. Panelled parapet with pierced panels, ball and urn finials, and central dormer with Dutch gable. Terracotta coping of segmental section. Narrow left-hand bay has arched through-passage entrance with transomed window on each upper floor and cornice below cusped parapet.
Listing NGR: SE4558421856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342680
- 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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