The Shire Hall and Corn Exchange
THE SHIRE HALL AND CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1377037
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Shire Hall and Corn Exchange
- Statutory Address:
- THE SHIRE HALL AND CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1377037
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Shire Hall and Corn Exchange
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SHIRE HALL AND CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET HILL
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 SHIRE HALL AND CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2707949146
Details
TM 2749/146
25.1.51.
MARKET HILL
The Shire Hall and Corn Exchange
GI
Considered to have been built circa 1575.An extract from Loder's Terrier of 1792 statesthat "Mr Seckford built...tile Sessions Hall at woodbridge(the Quarter Sessions being removed from Melton,where it was formerly held)giving the upper part of it for the use of the County for ever." The building is J storey,with stone coped Dutch gable end crowned with a small pediment,The former Corn Exchange which was open arched has now been bricked up and sash windows inserted.The walls are red brick,moulded cornice at first floor level,and band about three feet under eaves.Stone plinth end stone dressings finishing below band,and the flatter pitch of the main roof span to that of the gables at each end,and the difference in the brickwork above the band seem to indicate that an earlier roof existed,and that in general the present appearance with the stone steps and railings giving external access to the Shire Hill on the east end west ends,are of the latter apart of the C17.On the east end are two plaster lined niches,and on the north and south sides,two bull's eye plastered panels with a bullseye in each sable,the eastern one now having a clock face.A possible clue the suggested later reconstruction exists in the two Seckford Coats of Arms On the east end is one in wood which shows the crescent in the centre of the quartering,indicating the position of Thomas Seckford in the family,but on the west end the stone coat of arms built into the Structure omits this detail.There is a record that the west end of the Market Fall was leased for fifty years from 1817 as a Fire Station.Ancient monument.NMR photos.All listed buildings in Market Hill form a group around Shire Hall.
Listing NGR: TM2707949146
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284705
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Loders Terrier in Loders Terrier, (1792)
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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