1, MARKET PLACE
1, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252454
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 1, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1, MARKET PLACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252454
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 1, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 1, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ely
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 54263 80392
Details
The folloing building shall be added.
ELY TL 58 SW MARKET PLACE 1/239 NO. 1
GV II
Shops with accommodation above, original use not known. Probably late C13 or C14, extended probably C19. Timber-frame, rendered front, gault brick rear wing. Slate roofs with gabled ends. Brick gable end and axial stacks.
Plan: original short front range, parallel to road, may have been an open hall or had a chamber open to the roof, unheated or with a stack originally (roof not smoke- blackened). Rear wing added or rebuilt probably in C19 but with circa late C17 north end.
2 storeys and attic. 2-window front. C20 shop front with high fascia. C19 4-pane sashes on first floor in moulded architraves. Moulded eaves cornice. Two late C19 or C20 gabled dormers. Long wing at rear with casements and 3 9-pane sashes.
Interior: C19 joinery on first floor. The large splayed scarf wall-plate and studs of the rear wall are visible at rear in roof space. The original unblackened roof structure is intact and comprises large common rafter couples; the pegs on the tops of the collars suggest it was a crown-post roof.
Listing NGR: TL5426380392
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435471
- 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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