Description

SW 7939 FEOCK MARKET STREET, Devoran

7/63 The Market House, gate-piers and
boundary wall

GV II

Market house, now part of Devoran Primary School, gate-piers and boundary wall.
Circa mid C19. Slatestone walls with granite plinth, sills, strings, jambstones and
quoins. Brick arches. Hipped corrugated asbestos roofs with valley between.
Plan of 2 adjoining rectangular areas, the one to right (south) of 1 room, and that
to left (north) narrower for entrance vestibule, stair, and small 1 room projection
to rear left (east). Italianate style.
2 storeys. 3-window south front overlooking courtyard. Circa 1900 replacement
round-headed sashes with horns and glazing bars. Plinth of reticulated rusticated
ashlar, plain impost string and moulded mid-floor string. Ground floor windows in
partly blocked openings were originally doorways. West, street front, has similar
detail. Bay to left is slightly broken forward with central ground floor entrance
with panelled door and fanlight over. 2 first floor windows grouped together.
Right-hand part, originally with 2 arched openings from plinth level, has doorway,
left, with plinth removed and partly blocked opening to right with iron grill. Group
of 3 windows to first floor. Granite keystones to round-headed arches.
Interior has original stair with octagonal newel, turned balusters and moulded
mahogany handrail. Original floors and roof structure.
Gate-piers are square-on-plan granite monoliths with ogee shaped pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: SW7942239138

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433627

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)