Market Hall
MARKET HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1162719
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 2000-09-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/01559/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1162719
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jul-1987
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET HALL, MARKET PLACE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 93962 99169
Details
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE MARKET PLACE SJ 99 NW (east side)
4/17 Market Hall (formerly listed as West Front and tower of Market Hall) 12/1/67
G.V. II
Market Hall. Rebuilt in 1867 and enlarged in 1881 and 1930. Brick with ashlar dressings. Large single-storey rectangular plan, the principal elevation facing onto the market square. Total of 19 bays with a central tower, projecting plinth, impost band and modillion eaves cornice with blocking course. Arcade of semi-circular lights within arched recesses with keystones below recessed brick panels. Bays 8 and 14 are slightly advanced and have entrance doors below the arches. The tower rises 2 stages above the parapet. It bears a coat of arms, a datestone (A.D. 1867), small arched lights, polychromatic brick decoration, clock faces within keyed oculi and a balustered parapet above a cornice. The left bays and left return were added in 1881 and the extreme right bays, the right return and the rear were added in 1930. Cast and wrought-iron roof structure on cast-iron columns. W. Glover, History of Ashton-under-Lyne, 1884.
Listing NGR: SJ9396299169
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212665
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Glover, W, History of Ashton under Lyne, (1884)
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