Description

CREDITON

SS826000 MARKET STREET
672-1/5/123 (East side)
19/03/51 No.9
The Pannier Market
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET STREET
(East side)
Nos.8, 8A & 9)

GV II

Includes: The Pannier Market.
Includes: No.2 NORTH STREET.
Range of market buildings, now shops and laundry.c.1836, part
of a substantial development centred on moving the market from
the High Street. Flemish bond brick, partly roughcast; slate
roofs; rear lateral stacks with brick corbelled shafts and
decorative detail.
Plan: A range of former market stalls and shops running
west-east between Market Street and North Street with matching
terminal buildings (shops) in each street at either end of the
range which have principal elevations facing out into Market
and North Street.
Exterior: Terminal buildings 3 storeys, range between is 2
storeys with cellars. The terminal buildings are identical
except for some C20 alterations. No 2, North Street is the
most complete. Gabled one-bay front to North Street with left
and right pilasters, deep eaves and bargeboards and a rendered
platband at second floor level. Moulded cornice at first floor
level on paired consoles to left and right, the cornice
carried out round a 35-pane bow window with a 6-panel door
alongside to the right with an overlight with lozenge glazing
bars. Segmental chamfered brick recess surrounds the first
floor window, which has a chamfered embrasure and a segmental
head, the timber segment moulded with a roundel. The window is
glazed with a transomed 2-light casement with glazing bars and
margin panes. Small bowed cast iron balcony with a band of
guilloche ornament at the top and anthemion decoration amongst
the verticals. The second floor window is similar but
shallower and glazed with a tripartite sash with a 3/6-pane
sash in the centre and 1/2-panes in the outer lights. The left
return has pilasters, platbands and blind recesses matching
the windows on the North Street elevation. The right return
has similar pilasters, platbands, blind first and second floor
windows and a high transomed secondary 28-pane ground floor
window with top-hung lights above the transom. No 9 Market
Street is similar but the bow has been reglazed as 16 panes
with an 8-pane fixed shop window alongside to the right and
the window facing south on the ground floor is a 12-pane C20
bow. The range between the terminal buildings is 10 bays
divided by pilasters with a platband at first floor level. The
5 western bays have a higher roofline and have been altered
and rendered on the front (north) elevation. The first floor
openings are original with 16-pane sashes in chamfered
embrasures with segmental heads, the timber segments moulded
with the roundel moulding characteristic of the Market area
development. One first floor original 2-leaf door also
survives, boarded with a segmental head. The ground floor is
somewhat altered towards the Market Street end where modern
shop fronts have been inserted into the last five bays. The
right hand (east) end of the range is more complete on the
ground floor and includes 2 original bays, recessed behind
cast iron columns, which retain the original late Georgian
shuttered openings for 2 stalls with doorways at each end, a
very rare survival. Original 6-panel doors with flush panels
and grilles let into the upper panels. The shutters are
flush-panelled with bead mouldings: the one to the left is a
vertical sliding arrangement and the other is a shallow bow.
The vertical shutter has a 4-pane fixed window above it with
grilles above a transom and a continuous grille above that,
which extends and deepens over the door. The bowed shutter has
a similar grille above and across the door to the right. The
rear elevation of the range is unspoiled along its length with
pilasters and a platband and attractive internal rear lateral
stacks with corbelled caps and shafts with narrow, vertical
chamfered sunk panels.
Interior: Not inspected but more original fittings likely to
survive behind the original shuttered stalls.
The market was sited in the High Street until 1836 when it was
moved to this site which was redeveloped, mostly in an
Italianate style, including the Market House Inn, the Ship and
the shops on Market Street. The whole development is an
interesting example of provincial
late Georgian town planning on quite a large scale and
individual details, such as the roundel moulding above the
sash windows and the use of pilasters, link the buildings
together.

Listing NGR: SS8326900359

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504051

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