Market House Inn
2 AND 3, PARLIAMENT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292598
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Market House Inn
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 3, PARLIAMENT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292598
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Market House Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 3, PARLIAMENT STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MARKET HOUSE INN, 3, PARLIAMENT 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:
- 2 AND 3, PARLIAMENT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HOUSE INN, 3, PARLIAMENT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 83290 00414
Details
CREDITON
SS826000 PARLIAMENT STREET 672-1/5/139 (North side) 11/10/72 Nos.2 & 3 (Formerly Listed as: PARLIAMENT STREET (North side) No.3 Market House Inn)
GV II
House in use as offices. Circa 1836. Flemish bond brick, the rounded corners header bond; slate roof with gabled ends;end stacks with multiple shafts and old pots. Italianate style. Plan: double depth rectangular plan. Exterior: 3 storeys. Rounded front corners. 3-bay front divided by pilasters. On the ground floor the pilasters are stuccoed with capitals below a deep stuccoed platband with a moulded cornice. Brick platband at second floor level and below a cornice under the parapet, which rises with a panel in the centre. Central doorway with moulded consoles (porchhood probably missing) and doorcase with panelled reveals. Recessed 6-panel door with a deep overlight. All windows original with flat guaged brick arches: 2 ground and 3 first floor 16-pane sashes; 3 second floor 4/8-pane sashes. Attic dormer behind parapet. The left (west) return, which overlooks a lane between this building and the Market House Inn (now called the Three Little Pigs), is in a slightly plainer style. The platbands are carried round and the centre bay is flanked by pilasters. Central doorway with a doorcase with panelled pilasters and reveals and a shallow porch hood on moulded consoles. Recessed 6-panel door with an overlight. Large 32-pane sash above the door. The rear elevation preserves some original sashes. Interior: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. This building is part of an interesting c.1836 planned development which involved re-siting the market from the High Street and contemporary associated buildings surrounding it, including the Ship (q.v), houses in Market Street and this building.
Listing NGR: SS8329000414
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387090
- 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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