Market Building
MARKET BUILDING, CORNHILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388502
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Market Building
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET BUILDING, CORNHILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388502
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Market Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET BUILDING, CORNHILL
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 BUILDING, CORNHILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Lincoln (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 97593 71058
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771SE CORNHILL
1941-1/12/80 (North side)
02/10/69 Market Building
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNHILL
(North side)
Former Corn Exchange (MacDonald's,
market stalls, Ladbroke's Bingo))
GV II
Also known as: Corn Exchange CORNHILL.
Former corn exchange and market building, now restaurant,
covered market and bingo club. 1879. By Bellamy & Hardy.
Converted late C20. Brick with stone dressings, iron piers and
joists. Slate and lead roofs with 2 gable stacks and 3 gabled
ventilators. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: moulded plinth, first floor band, modillion cornice,
pedimented east gable. 2 and 3 storeys, 12 bays.
South side has to left an entrance bay, 3 storeys. Ground
floor has a C20 shopfront. The upper floors have 2 tripartite
sashes, those to the second floor with keystones. Between
them, the City arms. Above, an open pediment containing an
inscribed datestone. Very steep pitched pyramidal roof with a
flat top and wrought-iron crest. On each side, a louvred round
arched dormer with a crest. To right, shouldered ground floor
openings containing late C20 shopfronts, those to the right
under a late C20 glazed canopy. Above, a round arched blind
arcade with shaped keystones.
East gable has 2 round headed windows. North side has
pilasters and cogged eaves.
INTERIOR has in the main hall a laminated wood hammer beam
roof with iron spandrels and ornamented tie rods. Blind
arcaded walls. First floor carried on cast-iron columns.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 523).
Listing NGR: SK9759371058
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485947
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 523
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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