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Listed Building: OLD TOWN HALL AND THE BUTTERMARKET (1246178)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 831-1, 4, 120
Date assigned 13 March 1951
Date last amended

Description

Town hall now shop. 1602 altered 1709; restored C20. Coursed limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings; stone slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2-window range. Wing to rear and attached external steps on right return. Large quoins. Ground floor with chamfered ashlar piers infilled by wood-mullioned windows with leaded lights; studded door to right of central pier; wooden lintels with 2 armorial crests. First floor: central lead downpipe with rounded hopper; restored 3-light chamfered, mullioned windows beneath continuous dripmould. Ashlar copings to parapet and end gables; end stack with bands to left; C19 bellcote at right end has battered, quoined base. External steps to ground-floor right have ashlar side walls. Right return: quoined doorway flanked by 2-light windows. Ashlar rear wing has small 2-light mullioned window and gable copings with roll finial. Left return: short 2-light mullioned windows beneath flush ashlar band and dripmould; 2 tie-rod plates; taller first-floor windows beneath dripmould; lower eaves to rear. INTERIOR: 2 large transverse beams with chamfer stops; oak common joists to each end but removed from centre to allow for C20 oak staircase. First floor: 2 principal-rafter trusses with diagonal struts and collars; 2 purlins to each slope; diagonally-set ridge. HISTORY: originally served as Town Hall on upper floor with St John's Hospital beneath; after 1709 the almsmen were housed in St John's Hospital almshouses to rear (South Church Street qv); later served as Buttermarket and also as Lady Manners Grammar School. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: Harmondsworth: 1986-: 75). Listing NGR: SK2167968434

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Location

Grid reference SK 21679 68434 (point)
Map sheet SK26NW
Civil Parish BAKEWELL, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Jul 29 2015 10:36AM

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