Market House
MARKET HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1349392
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Market House
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1349392
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Market House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET HOUSE, HIGH 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:
- MARKET HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ledbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 71102 37708
Details
1. 5245 HIGH STREET (East Side) ------------ Market House (formerly listed as The Town Hall or Market House) SO 7137 NE 2/20 18.9.53.
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2. Begun circa 1617 and completed after 1655, and attributed John Abel, the King's Carpenter. Timber-framed with a gable-ended tiled roof. 2 storeys. The upper storey is supported on 7 posts on the long sides and 3 at the ends all with curved braces. The posts are of local Spanish chestnut, on stone bases, they are moulded grooved and tapered with moulded bases. Upper storey projects on all sides with chamfered bressummers and exposed timber framing, herring bone patterned on the west and south, the other sides with square panels. 6-light wooden ovolo-moulded mullion/transom windows with leaded panes, 3 windows on west side, 2 on south side. Inside the open ground floor the floor is stone paved, the ceiling has chamfered beams forming square bays. The upper storey has similar beams and exposed wall posts. The stairs and most of the windows are modern. AM.
Market House with all the listed buildings on the east side of High Street form a good group.
Listing NGR: SO7110237708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 151844
- 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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