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Latitude: 51.6022 / 51°36'7"N
Longitude: -3.3409 / 3°20'27"W
OS Eastings: 307226
OS Northings: 190110
OS Grid: ST072901
Mapcode National: GBR HQ.B8CG
Mapcode Global: VH6DK.1ZNN
Plus Code: 9C3RJM25+VJ
Entry Name: Market Chambers
Listing Date: 17 July 1990
Last Amended: 26 February 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 13528
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300013528
Location: On the corner with Church Street in the pedestrianised centre of the town. Market Chambers faces Market Street and incorporates shops known as 5-6 Market Street in its lower storey.
County: Rhondda Cynon Taff
Town: Pontypridd
Community: Pontypridd
Community: Pontypridd
Built-Up Area: Pontypridd
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Built in 1890 as the Town Hall and Town Hall Chambers, replacing the earlier market building adjoining to the W, by the local architect Thomas Rowlands. The hall later became known as the Lesser Town Hall and served as a Music Hall and cinema. It became a clothes market in 1988 and is now re-named The Arcade.
The main entrance from Market Street has a hall tiled up to head height with classical frieze, and a decorative tile floor. A coffered lintel on pairs of brackets leads into a stair hall with full-height open-well stair in short flights, with turned newels and T-shaped turned balusters.
Listed for architectural interest as a late Victorian public building retaining original character, and for group value with the Old Market Hall and Market Tavern Hotel.
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