Description

ST6718 MILBORNE PORT CP HIGH STREET (South side)

12/138 No 6 and No 7
(The Guildhall)
(previously listed as Guildhall)

24.3.61

GV II

Shop, and Guildhall. At least C17 with earlier fragments, shop, C19. Local stone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings;
Bridgwater patent interlocking clay tile roof, simple gables; brick chimney stacks, with stepped stone chimney stack
between the Guildhall and no 8 (QV). 2 storeys, 4 bays total. Bays 1 and 2 of C19, with 4 panel sash windows above;
below a part glazed door in chamfered cambered arch, bay 2 a projecting square bay shop window under clay tile lean-to:
bays 3 and 4, the Guildhall, have cruciform casement windows, the upper windows having rectangular leaded panes and the
lower diamond panes, with no window to lower bay 4: between bays a doorway composed of C11 fragments: the jambs are
chevron moulded, and impost blocks support a stilted segmental arch (probably part of a wider span Norman arch) formed
of moulded 'T' corbels. Interior not inspected: lower portion of Guildhall used as store to butcher's shop (April
1984).

Listing NGR: ST6772618629

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26583263

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)