Fish Market
FISH MARKET, THE BARBICAN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386441
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Fish Market
- Statutory Address:
- FISH MARKET, THE BARBICAN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386441
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Fish Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- FISH MARKET, THE BARBICAN
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:
- FISH MARKET, THE BARBICAN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 48299 54112
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW THE BARBICAN, Barbican 740-1/62/85 (East side) 30/07/90 Fish Market
GV II
Fish market. 1896. By Sir James Inglis, engineer to GWR. Cast-iron and steel structure, slate or lead covered roofs; former clearstorey now closed by asbestos cement sheeting; rainwater discharged down the cast-iron columns which support the canopy. PLAN: rectangular plan with central solid and glazed structure incorporating office and refrigeration unit, this is fronted to all sides by open canopied shelters projecting 2.5 metres from their supporting columns. EXTERIOR: single storey; each long side with 6 pairs of cast-iron columns and decorative floral spandrel brackets. The round columns, cast by MILLBAY COY LIMITED, PLYMOUTH, are on octagonal bases and with stiff-leaf capitals, these carry cambered latticed steel wallplate/purlins which girdle the perimeter of the building behind the projecting canopy. Under the canopy on the street side are some original granite setts, otherwise concrete floors. The gable ends have bracket-moulded and pierced barge boards and central finials and pendants; the outer edge of the lower canopy has a continuous fretted valance of "railway station" type, with broad swept curves, inflected to the column positions at the short ends of the building. A flat-roofed white brick structure with granite dressings is built into 3 bays of the street side. There are iron gates to a central throughway. To the central building on the street side are 3-light transomed casements, and on the harbour side is a row of single-light casements to cambered voussoir heads, and a series of doors. INTERIOR: softwood boards as lining under the roof. HISTORY: Sutton Harbour Improvement Company widened the quay and built the Fish Market on reclaimed land above new sewage tanks. This is a good complete example of a characteristic Victorian fish market, prominently sited in an important historic area. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 663).
Listing NGR: SX4829954112
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473828
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 663
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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