8, MARKET PLACE
8, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313287
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 8, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 8, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313287
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 8, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, 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:
- 8, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45634 21943
Details
PONTEFRACT MARKET PLACE SE 4521 NE (north-west side) 8/43 No 8 (formerly listed as 'No 8 3.3.75 (The Tankard Public House)') GV II
House, now public house. Probably late C18 with later alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond, partly painted, with painted stucco dressings and slate roof. Three storeys, 4 bays with central entrance. Ground floor is recessed and painted and has central semi-circular-headed doorcase with bolection-moulded architrave, 6-panel door and leaded fanlight. To either side there are bow windows on brick plinths with 3 18-pane sashes to each, brick sills and wooden cornices. In front of the doorcase are 2 C20 wooden columns supporting modern fascia with original stone cornice below centre point and moulded sill band to first-floor windows at top. First and second floors have rusticated stucco quoins. First floor has 4 tall sash windows with glazing bars in elaborate pedimented surrounds with eared and shouldered architraves set over raised quoined jambs, corniced keystones to architraves and plain friezes to pediments. Moulded second-floor sill band and 4 unequally-hung 9-pane sashes in similar surrounds, but with plain architraves and without pediments. Eaves band. Stone coped gable to left. C19 brick end stacks.
Listing NGR: SE4563421943
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342682
- 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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