Description

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SP 8699-8799
4/86

UPPINGHAM
MARKET PLACE
No 3 and 3A

(formerly listed as No 3 (Ye Olde Spyre Restaurant), previously listed as Premises immediately South of Post Office)

10.11.55

GV
II
House, late C16 or early C17 with C17 and C18 additions and C19 shop front. Coursed rubble and ashlar with Collyweston stone slate roof, coped gables and stone ridge and end stacks, some with brick shafts.

Original house extended first to north to form T-plan, then to west along churchyard in two separate builds. Two storeys and attic. Shop front, with double doors at chamfered north-east corner flanked by three-light window to north and six-light to east, fills north-east angle. Three 6/6 sash windows to first floor above, the two in the east face with raised architraves and keystones. Two two-light gabled dormers above, casement openings with leaded panes. Sash windows and C19 Tudor style panelled door in east gable end. South front of original house has two 8/8 sash windows in raised architraves, above a 3/3 sash window.

Extensions to west of rubble, each with one 6/6 sash window and a two-light hipped casement dormer above. North front of first extension ashlar, and of second extension squared ironstone. Ground floor openings concealed by brick addition but first extension has ovolo-moulded two-light stone mullioned window, and doorway, and second extension has doorway and blocked window with double keystones. West gable end has illegible C18 datestone with cornice over, and C20 window in opening with double keystone. Outshut to west of north wing.

Interior retains inglenook fireplace in original house, boldly-moulded architrave to west door of first extension to west, some old panelled doors and, in cellar beneath north wing, a mutilated ovolo-moulded fireplace and a blocked ovolo-moulded opening to west.

Listing NGR: SP8665899627

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553328

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990