Malton Museum
MALTON MUSEUM, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282440
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Malton Museum
- Statutory Address:
- MALTON MUSEUM, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282440
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Malton Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- MALTON MUSEUM, 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:
- MALTON MUSEUM, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 78590 71762
Details
MALTON
SE780715 MARKET PLACE 801-1/8/81 Malton Museum 29/09/51 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE Town Hall)
GV II
Butter Market and Town Hall, now museum. Butter Market early C18; raised and enlarged c1855. Tooled sandstone, formerly lime-washed, on chamfered plinth; rebuilding and extensions in dressed sandstone, part faced in C20 stone cladding, with ashlar dressings; arcades blocked with rendered brick. Slate roof with stone stacks, and coped gables on corbel kneelers at rear; one cornice ridge stack. Entrance front (north-east): 2-storey 6-bay front, arranged 1:3:2. Tripled bays project to form full-height frontispiece, with plain pilasters and moulded imposts, beneath massive grooved consoles supporting balcony with wrought-iron railings. Flight of steps up to panelled double doors with divided overlight in centre bay, and small 2-light windows in flanking bays. On first floor, half-glazed panelled door, between single-pane windows, gives access to balcony. Bays to left and right of frontispiece contain 12-pane sashes, and right end bay has single-pane sash. All openings are chamfered, and all windows have chamfered stone sills. Raised first-floor band, and moulded eaves band across frontispiece beneath coped parapet, stepped in places. Rear (south-west): 2-storey 4-bay front with 2-storey 1-bay extension to left. Ground floor of 4-bay part forms former Butter Market arcade of round arches on square-section piers, now blocked by 12-pane sash windows with stone sills; similar windows on first floor. Left end bay has single-pane sash on each floor. Raised first-floor band, stepped at straight joint with extension. Right-of-centre bellcote with louvred openings and pyramidal steeple with arrow weather vane. Left return (south-east): 2-storey 3-bay front, 2 bays to left gabled. Left bays round-arched arcade, blocked as at rear. Right end bay contains blocked round arch with impost band. 12-pane sashes on first floor. Right return (north-west): 2-storey 4-bay front, 2 bays to right gabled. Sunk-panelled door with overlight in centre in keyed chamfered doorcase beneath pediment hood on grooved corbels. 2 single-pane sash windows to right and one to left; similar windows on first floor. 2 pairs of blocked slits in gable end. Raised first floor band and moulded eaves band to left bays, beneath stepped coped parapet. INTERIOR: Ground floor: Butter Market survives almost complete: three 4-bay arcades of round arches of tooled voussoirs on square section piers with imposts. First floor: sunk-panelled double doors at the top of the stairs give entrance to former Council Chamber, with fine hammer-beam roof, now partly ceiled.
Listing NGR: SE7859071762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389460
- 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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