Corn Exchange
CORN EXCHANGE, WITHERSFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375531
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Corn Exchange
- Statutory Address:
- CORN EXCHANGE, WITHERSFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375531
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Corn Exchange
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORN EXCHANGE, WITHERSFIELD ROAD
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:
- CORN EXCHANGE, WITHERSFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haverhill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 66991 45749
Details
HAVERHILL
TL6645 WITHERSFIELD ROAD 816-1/5/28 (West side) 09/05/73 Corn Exchange
GV II
Corn Exchange, now community centre and offices. 1889 by Frank Whitmore. Red brick with moulded brick details and slate roof replacing original glazed roof. EXTERIOR: single-storey gabled front to street behind single-storey flat-roofed narthex. Central entrance in narthex consisting of doorway recessed behind a basket-arched opening flanked by engaged columns with base fluting. One 2-light casement right and left under basket arches. Jambs, aprons and lintels of windows elaborated with moulded brick. Panelled and balustraded parapet. Main gable wall above with a triple-arched casement under a basket arch set in raised and pedimented field. Gable apex surmounted by double-curved pediment. Returns: 6 bays, articulated by pilasters. Windows are triple-arched casements under basket arches with jambs, aprons and lintels of moulded brick. INTERIOR: three arches at east end with Y-traceried heads. Pilasters to north and south walls. (Brown C: Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914: Ipswich: 1991-: 196).
Listing NGR: TL6699145749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466429
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brown, , Kindred, , Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914, (1991), 196
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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