Market Hall

MARKET HALL, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1138235
Date first listed:
05-Mar-1990
Statutory Address:
MARKET HALL, THE SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1138235
Date first listed:
05-Mar-1990
Statutory Address 1:
MARKET HALL, THE SQUARE

Location

Statutory Address:
MARKET HALL, THE SQUARE

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Broughton West
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
SD 21209 87556

Details

BROUGHTON WEST THE SQUARE (south-west side) SD 2187 Broughton-in-Furness 23/60 Market Hall G.V. II

Market Hall. c1760. For Gilpin Sawrey. Roughcast stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Ground floor has round-arched arcade on square piers with plain capital blocks, the arches with keys and hoodboards, now with infill of entrances and small-paned glazing. lst floor has paired round-headed windows with keys and sashes with glazing bars, Central clock face in square architrave dated 1766; lantern on bracket to end. Bell turret to ridge is square with round arches, pyramidal roof, ball finial and weather vane with hunting figures. Guilt as part of planned town square, an unusual feature in a Cumbrian village.

Listing NGR: SD2120987556

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75831
Legacy System:
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