Description

SJ 7419 SE, SJ 741; 1/103

ST MARY STREET (East Side),
Former Town Hall
[Owners Newport (Salop) Market and Trading Company]

II

Now divided into eight shops. Dated 1860. Architect: J Cobb. Debased Italianate
style. Painted brick with stone dressings; two storeys; a slightly projecting
bay at either side with pediment (one window); four windows to centre; windows
in moulded architraves with semicircular heads, the outers with cornices surmounted
by scroll cresting; quoins, those to ground storey vermiculated; moulded sill
and floor bands; plain frieze; moulded eaves cornice on brackets; parapet with
inset balustrading, and clock at centre in surround with moulded stucco scrolls
and garlands, and surmounted by lion-head keystone and segmental pediment.
Ground storey altered with inset modern shop fronts.

Listing NGR: SJ7458619107

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Former Town Hall [Owners Newport (Salop) Market And Trading Company] at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26648807

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