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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
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