The Pannier Market Buildings
THE PANNIER MARKET BUILDINGS, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297094
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Pannier Market Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- THE PANNIER MARKET BUILDINGS, MARKET SQUARE
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297094
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Pannier Market Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PANNIER MARKET BUILDINGS, MARKET SQUARE
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:
- THE PANNIER MARKET BUILDINGS, MARKET SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87653 51400
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 MARKET SQUARE 673-1/8/168 The Pannier Market Buildings 14/09/49 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET SQUARE Market (including central building))
GV II
Pannier market. 1828; renovated c1975. Brown-coloured local sandstone rubble, granite arcades; stone lateral stacks with relatively tall diagonal red brick chimneyshafts; slate roof. PLAN: Cobbled market square, which contains Market Court House (qv), enclosed on 4 sides by market buildings, square on plan. Carriageways through north and south sides, another blocked on west side. Single-storey stalls face into the courtyard backing onto outer walls. EXTERIOR: From the outside there are long low ranges, the walls with blind rectangular panels; roofs hipped on the corners. Original carriageway in centre of south wall (onto Victoria Road) has segmental arch with gable over and contains original double gates, curving down to centre with iron spiked crest and diagonal plank panels. To right, the one window this side has a reused C17 timber mullion-and-transomed frame. West side includes some secondary lockups and the gabled carriageway this side has been so converted. Inside, each side had an open 9-bay arcade carried on tapering granite posts with plain plinths and caps. It is still open on south side where, each side of the carriageway, there are still early stalls; the one east of the carriageway, for instance, has butcher's hooks and ventilation grille. East and west arcades totally blocked and north side partly blocked. INTERIOR: Most now ceiled, but part of north side open to original tie-beam trusses with lap-jointed collars and raking queen struts, all fixed by wooden pegs. HISTORY: The Market Square was the focus for an extensive scheme of improvements associated with the infill of the old mill pool. This work supervised by the Rev.Charles Holdsworth using family money, the interest to be paid out of the borough income. At the same time, New Road (now Victoria Road) was built along the southern edge of the creek to enable, for the first time, horse-drawn traffic in and out of the town. (Freeman, Ray: Dartmouth and its Neighbours: Phillimore: 1990-: P.146).
Listing NGR: SX8765351400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387288
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Freeman, R, Dartmouth and its Neighbours, (1990), 1146
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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