Market Hall and No 16
16, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138302
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Market Hall and No 16
- Statutory Address:
- 16, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138302
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Market Hall and No 16
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- MARKET HALL, 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:
- 16, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kendal
- National Grid Reference:
- SD5156792810
Details
SD 5192 NE
8/102
14-4-69
KENDAL
MARKET PLACE
(North side)
Market Hall & No 16
G.V.
II
Market Hall, incorporating entrance to no 16. Built 1887 by public subscription
to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Hammer-dressed rubble with
quoins; ground floor coursed, upper floors snecked. Cornice between ground and
1st floors, string between 1st and 2nd floors, and interrupted string below
eaves band. Moulded cast-iron gutter has lion's head near right-hand end.
Graduated slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Rusticated pier and responds to left
with wrought-iron double gates between; weathered inscription (partly renewed),
with central cartouche, to each lintel. Entrance to no 16 on right: Panelled
door and semicircular fanlight in surround with projecting keystone. Sashes in
architraves: Tall to 1st floor, with segmentally-pedimented frames containing
shields to either side of central window; cast-iron balconies on stone brackets
to 2nd floor with inscription in large, cast-iron letters, PUBLIC MARKET, split
to either side of central window.
Listing NGR: SD5156792810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75444
- 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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