Description

NORTH STREET
1.
972
(East Side)
Nos 84 & 85
SU 8604 4/51
II GV
2.
C18 front to an older timber-framed building. Old tiled steeply pitched
roof With higher ridge line than No, 83. 3 storeys and attic; lower
frontage than No 83. Small stack at north end of roof, and stack behind
at south end. 1 flat roofed dormer over south end of No 85. Moulded
eaves cornice with modillions. 4 windows; sash windows with flush boxes
with glazing bars intact in the second floor windows of No 85; others
missing. Window blind covers above first floor windows of No 85. C20
plate-glass shop front to No 84; later C19 shop front to No 85.
Panelling and timber-framed construction visible inside; said to have
been built on the site of a medieval church; traces of a passageway
with medieval stone arch in cellar.

The Market House, Technical Institute No 83 to 87 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU8609404849

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26277675

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)