Market Hall
MARKET HALL, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148026
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Market Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HALL, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148026
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Market Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET HALL, BRIDGE STREET
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:
- MARKET HALL, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bakewell
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 21862 68570
Details
BAKEWELL
SK2168 BRIDGE STREET 831-1/4/29 (South side) 13/03/51 Market Hall
GV II
Former market hall now information centre. c1600 origin; altered C18 and with eastern extension of 1858 and later rear porch. Deeply-coursed sandstone, stone slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5-window range; double-span roof. Bridge Street front: large quoins; plinth to bay 1 and straight joint on right. Chamfered surrounds to 2-light mullioned windows with leaded lights; first-floor sill band across bays 2-5; single-light window to first floor of bay 1. Ashlar gutter; mid C19 blind gabled dormers over bays 2-5 have painted shields, shaped kneelers and roll-moulded copings with apex gablets; end gables similarly treated. Rear: single-storey porch has triangular-headed entrance with double doors; leaded sidelights; ashlar parapet with moulded copings. Chamfered mullioned windows and gabled dormer to main wall. Tudor-arched doorway into right end bay. Left return: 3-light mullioned window with dripstone; oriel bay window of 1:2:1 lights to first-floor right. Right return: 3 late C19 square-headed openings with central entrance flanked by display windows. West gable rebuilt 1896. INTERIOR: Bridge Street side has infilled arcade of 4 round arches which spring from large blocks. Window heads of opposite wall have reused timber lintels including 2 sections of multiple-light windows with sockets for diagonally-set mullions. Central valley supported on 2 iron pillars. Each roof with small principal-rafter trusses having diagonal struts; large-scantling purlins and diagonally-set ridge (some reconstruction). The arcaded side wall was filled in C18; the building may have been timber-framed on the upper floor. HISTORY: served as Town Hall from 1827 also used as wash-house and courtroom in mid C19. In 1858 floor removed and building used as courtroom and assembly hall. Became market hall when Bakewell's new town hall was built in 1891.
Listing NGR: SK2186268570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468063
- 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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