Description

WITNEY MARKET SQUARE SP3509N (East side) 10/178 Corn Exchanq 06/02/70 GV II

Corn Exchange, now offices. Built 1863. Squared and coursed limestone, with rusticated pilaster strips and dressings; gabled Welsh-slate roof; stone end stacks. Italian Classical style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Semi-circular arched doorway with rusticated surrounds to panelled double-leaf doors; balcony above supported by 2 huge brackets with carved flower swags. Door flanked by tripartite plate-glass sashes with rusticated segmental-arched architraves. First-floor cross-windows set in moulded stone architraves with bracketed cornices and central segmental pediment. Modillioned stone cornice beneath low parapet. Consoles flank central open-pedimented gable with ball finials and lunette. Keyed raised architraves to right side wall and long rear wing of one-storey, 5-window range, interior: mid C19 stairs, dado in room to left, and braced queen-post roof in first-floor chamber. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.846).

Listing NGR: SP3564109638

External Links

• Corn Exchange at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26577476

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)