Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
8852
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/03/1985
Date of Amendment
26/03/1985
Name of Property
Market Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Presteigne
Town
Locality
Easting
331437
Northing
264390
Street Side
Location
Prominently sited in the centre of the town with two main fronts.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
1869. By Thomas Nicholson, architect of Hereford.
Exterior
Italianate Gothic, 3 bay arcades to ground floor, stair and high clock tower in Broad Street, hall on first floor.
Red brick with patterned black brick and painted free stone dressings. Rounded angles with animal carvings to layered corbel treatment. Hipped slate roofs, over sailing eaves with moulded brackets, chip-carved cill band, round headed 1st floor windows, sashes with glazing bars, stepped reveals, foliage capitals and pointed voussoir treatment.
Similar detailing to ground floor arcades with modern shop fronts recessed under, tabernacle to curved corner with finials, heraldic shield etc. Tall clock tower with pyramidal slate roof and weathervane, elaborate ashlar Gothic surrounds to clock faces with spiral colonettes, carved capitals, punched decoration etc.
Double 3-panel doors under segmental headed arch with foliage capitals.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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