Description

SP 8003 PRINCES RISBOROUGH MARKET SQUARE

9/189 Market House (formerly
listed as the Meeting Room)
21.6.55

GV II*

Small market house.1824, the gift of John Grubb, restored 1867
and C20. Red brick, coved plaster eaves, hipped slate roof, timber
clock turret. Square 2-storey building, each side with 2 semi-
circular arches to ground floor and central leaded window to
room above. E. and W. windows have large single lights; smaller single
light cut up into coving to N.; paired casements to S. E., S., and W.
sides have C19 verandah with hipped slate roof on wooden posts. War
memorial on central S. pier, staircase on N. side. Central turret
has square panelled base with clock, moulded cornice, and arched
bell-cote above. Bell-cote has tented lead roof and weather vane.

Listing NGR: SP8074203502

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541087

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)