Description

TQ 2880 SE
1900-/80/10031

SHEPHERD MARKET (east side)
No. 10 (The Little House Club)

GV
II
Townhouse, c1741, and part of the original Market scheme as developed by Edward Shepherd who also acted as builder. The exterior cased in stock brick with brick and stone dressing in the 1860s, when the original market tavern was demolished and several houses in the Market had to be rebuilt. Roof of slate.

Four storeys. One tripartite window to the Market, repeated on upper floors. Two window range to return. Shop to ground floor with bracketed fascia of original design and shopfront rebuilt to an authentic design. Flat- and segmental-arched openings turned in stone and banded; storey bands; plain parapet. Stacks to right party wall and
right rear corner.

Entrance on return, leads to full-height panelled stair bay; balustrade of original design. One room to either side of the stair, each panelled from ground to second floors. Of particular interest are two Gibbsian C18 fireplaces to rear room on ground and first floor. Regency period fireplace to front room, first floor, most likely installed in early C20. Of special interest are carved cabinet panels around the window in rear, ground floor room: C17 Artisan Mannerist style, most likely reused from a large piece of furniture and, like the Regency fireplace mentioned above, installed in the early part of this century.

No. 10 is reputed to have been the first building constructed in the development and to have been the home of Edward Shepherd himself. The survival of a complete Georgian townhouse within a Victorian skin is a graphic witness to the inferior quality of the original speculative construction which necessitated the rebuilding of many properties in the Market during the 1860s.

Listing NGR: TQ2875280252

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082949

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)