The Old Market
THE OLD MARKET, 11A, UPPER MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298651
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Market
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD MARKET, 11A, UPPER MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298651
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD MARKET, 11A, UPPER MARKET 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:
- THE OLD MARKET, 11A, UPPER MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29875 04404
Details
HOVE
TQ2904SE UPPER MARKET STREET 579-1/23/126 (South side) 10/09/71 No.11A The Old Market (Formerly Listed as: UPPER MARKET STREET No.11A (centre part))
GV II
Market, subsequently enlarged as riding school, now vacant. 1828, enlarged mid C19, extensive internal alterations mid-late C20. Render over brick, rusticated ground floor, part-rendered on rear elevations, hipped slate roofs. Plan: island site, rectangular market hall in centre of square block, main elevation on north front. North front: 3-storey centre with 2 and 3 storey wings, 1:1:2:1:3 bays, central 4 bays with 3 pairs of giant pilasters with acanthus leaf capitals carrying entablature with ball finials to outer pair of pilasters and central panel with volutes, inscribed Old Market Arts Centre, to right modillion cornice to 2 bays, end bay only 2 storeys high, square-headed windows with 6-pane sashes, end bay left of 2 storeys with segmental-headed windows, ground floor rusticated with entrances, boarded up, in fourth and fifth bays. Left return (east), central 3-bay range facing the Waterloo Street Arch (qv): single storey with moulded cornice and parapet, flat string linking round-headed arcades, glazed heads, wide pilaster doorcases of uncertain date, boarded up openings but with evidence of double panelled dados, thought to be shop counters or shop windows. 3-storey, 3 x 5 bay block in south-west corner with quoins and shaped aprons to first floor windows, ground floor altered mid-late C20. No internal features of interest survive apart from the original roof king post trusses. Built as Brunswick Market, the building had become a riding academy by 1840 and in 1875 was taken over by Mr Dupont's Riding Academy. Subsequently it was used as a warehouse, part of it being a bacon smokery. In the late 1970s attempts were made to convert it into an arts centre; at time of Survey the building was vacant. (Middleton J: A History of Hove: 1979-).
Listing NGR: TQ2987504404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365645
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Middleton, J, A History of Hove, (1979)
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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