Description

1.
5224 HIGH STREET

Market Hall
(Formerly listed
under Market Place)
SP 1539 SW 9/200 25.8.60

I GV

2.
1627. Built for Sir Baptist Hicks for dairy produce and poultry. Classical double
arcaded loggie. Built of ashlar with Cotswold stone valley roof. 2 x 5 arches.
2 x 3 gables with blocked 2 light mullion windows in rebated surrounds with cornices.
Pyramidal finials at apices, corners and between gables. Arcades rest on square
piers with panelled caps. Ogee panel between 2 east gables displaying Hick's arms
(see also Almhouses in Church Street). Inner colonnade of chamfered piers on high
plinths, supporting valley plate. Waggon ceiling houses (plaster removed). Pitched
paving. On south side the corners and piers have low off-set buttresses, to north
a low wall.
Owned by the National Trust - (A.M.).

Listing NGR: SP1513839169

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540229

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