MARKET HALL

MARKET HALL, FORE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247925
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: MARKET HALL
Statutory Address:: MARKET HALL, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247925
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: MARKET HALL
Statutory Address 1:: MARKET HALL, FORE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MARKET HALL, FORE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dulverton
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS 91392 27894

Details

SS9127 DULVERTON CP FORE STREET (South side)

15/74 Market Hall -

- II

Market house, now hall over shops. 1866, converted with addition of porch in 1930 by Sir A E Richardson. Coursed rubble local stone, rubble voussoirs, slate roof, overhanging eaves with sprockets. Two storeys, 3:1:3 bays, first floor 12-pane sash windows with central entrance approached by a perron stair, straight not curved, wrought iron handrails, overthrow with lamp to each flight, seal-circular headed central void, wrought iron part glazed porch, flat roofed with slightly convex front, forming a pseudo-Doric porch with wrought iron columns and simulated tryglyph freize, ground floor left end bay semi-circular headed doorway, double 4-panel door, rectangular light above, arch headed windows right with radiating glazing bars, 3 x 5 pane in outer bays, 1 x 3 inner, central 3 x 4 pane glazed double doors, entrance end bay right semi-circular headed, fanlight and double 4-panel door with arch head opening like ticket office. The ground floor was probably an open loggia originally. A very elegant porch and stairway. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: SS9139227894

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Legacy System number:: 429345
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.