Old Town Hall the Buttermarket
OLD TOWN HALL, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246178
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall the Buttermarket
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TOWN HALL, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246178
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall the Buttermarket
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD TOWN HALL, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE BUTTERMARKET, KING 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:
- OLD TOWN HALL, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE BUTTERMARKET, KING 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 21679 68434
Details
BAKEWELL
SK2168 KING STREET 831-1/4/120 (North West side) 13/03/51 Old Town Hall (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET (North West side) The Buttermarket or Old Town Hall)
GV II
Also known as: The Buttermarket KING STREET. Town hall now shop. 1602 altered 1709; restored C20. Coursed limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings; stone slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2-window range. Wing to rear and attached external steps on right return. Large quoins. Ground floor with chamfered ashlar piers infilled by wood-mullioned windows with leaded lights; studded door to right of central pier; wooden lintels with 2 armorial crests. First floor: central lead downpipe with rounded hopper; restored 3-light chamfered, mullioned windows beneath continuous dripmould. Ashlar copings to parapet and end gables; end stack with bands to left; C19 bellcote at right end has battered, quoined base. External steps to ground-floor right have ashlar side walls. Right return: quoined doorway flanked by 2-light windows. Ashlar rear wing has small 2-light mullioned window and gable copings with roll finial. Left return: short 2-light mullioned windows beneath flush ashlar band and dripmould; 2 tie-rod plates; taller first-floor windows beneath dripmould; lower eaves to rear. INTERIOR: 2 large transverse beams with chamfer stops; oak common joists to each end but removed from centre to allow for C20 oak staircase. First floor: 2 principal-rafter trusses with diagonal struts and collars; 2 purlins to each slope; diagonally-set ridge. HISTORY: originally served as Town Hall on upper floor with St John's Hospital beneath; after 1709 the almsmen were housed in St John's Hospital almshouses to rear (South Church Street qv); later served as Buttermarket and also as Lady Manners Grammar School. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: Harmondsworth: 1986-: 75).
Listing NGR: SK2167968434
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468155
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (2002), 75
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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