The Covered Market
THE COVERED MARKET, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218479
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- The Covered Market
- Statutory Address:
- THE COVERED MARKET, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218479
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- The Covered Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COVERED MARKET, MARKET 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:
- THE COVERED MARKET, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 53984 29579
Details
PRESTON
SD5329NE MARKET STREET 941-1/9/203 (East side) 27/09/79 The Covered Market
GV II
Covered market. 1870-75, designed by Garlick, Park & Sykes; constructed first by Joseph Clayton of Preston, then by P.D.Bennett & Co of West Bromwich, and finally by Willam Allsup. Cast-iron columns, wrought-iron girders and principals with tension bars, hipped slate roof with red ridge tiles. Rectangular plan on east-west axis. A tall open-sided structure, following a downward slope from east to west, 13x3 bays. The columns have square pedestals with dog-toothed panels, 3 marked "J.CLAYTON PRESTON" and 31 with "W.ALLSUP" superimposed, clustered shafts with foliated caps, and large open-work brackets carrying trellis girders with applied ornamentation; attached at right-angles to the girders are prominent curved open-work brackets to oversailing eaves. Roof of close-set principals with wrought-iron tension bars. History: collapsed while under construction, August 1870; completion delayed by disputes between designer and contractors, and by appeal to Sir William Fairbairn. Forms group with Fish Market (q.v.) and Amounderness House (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5398429579
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392091
- 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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