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15-21 Market Place

A Grade II Listed Building in Pontefract, Wakefield

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6915 / 53°41'29"N

Longitude: -1.3106 / 1°18'37"W

OS Eastings: 445624

OS Northings: 421895

OS Grid: SE456218

Mapcode National: GBR MT9R.2F

Mapcode Global: WHDC6.VG3V

Plus Code: 9C5WMMRQ+JQ

Entry Name: 15-21 Market Place

Listing Date: 5 November 1968

Last Amended: 15 November 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1313286

English Heritage Legacy ID: 342676

ID on this website: 101313286

Location: Pontefract, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF8

County: Wakefield

Electoral Ward/Division: Pontefract North

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Pontefract

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Pontefract St Giles with St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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SE 4521 NE
8/37

PONTEFRACT
MARKET PLACE (south-east side)
Nos 15 to 21 (odd)

(Formerly listed as 'No 13, No 15, No 17, No 19, No 21')

5.11.68

GV
II

Terrace of four houses, now a public house, restaurant and shops. Early-mid C18 with late C19 and C20 alterations. Rendered brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Three tall storeys and seven bays. Central entrance and through-passages to outer bays. Ground floor has semi-circular-headed arches to through-passages with rusticated jambs, radiating voussoirs and dropped keystones, arch to right is wider. Both arches have narrow cornice over. Recessed central entrance is flanked by C20 shop fronts. To first and second floors, left-hand corner has a rusticated pilaster strip. First floor has seven narrow flush-frame plate-glass sash windows over moulded sill band with projecting bracketed sills. Above, seven similar, smaller windows over similar band and sills with later moulded gutter below. Early C20 egg-and-dart and moulded cornice. Steeply pitched roof with swept eaves. No stacks.

Listing NGR: SE4562421895

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