Description

TQ 8790 NE/SE
15/268 and 16/268

ROCHFORD
WEST STREET (south side)
Womens Institute Hall (formerly The Corn Exchange)

II
Meeting Hall. Formerly The Corn Exchange. Circa 1866. F. Chancellor. Striated yellow brick. Grey slate roof with continuous raised lights to apex. A tall single storey building, gabled to road with raised and gabled apex. Moulded and dentilled cornices, moulded stone terminals. The raised apex with side bands and roundel set within a recessed arch. An ornate wrought iron bracket supports a double faced memorial clock, Queen Victoria's Jubilee 22/6/1897.

Three continuous recessed arches with striated round heads, each decorated with central and base flower panels, foliate capitals and moulded bases to attached shafts and flower decorated impost roundels enclose the windows and central doors. The windows are vertically sliding sashes with round headed fanlights over. Panelled double doors with ornate wrought iron round headed grille over.

Listing NGR: TQ8758890503

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Corn Exchange, Rochford at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26461613

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)