Listed Building record MDO11500 - Market House, 15 Cornmarket, Wimborne Minster

Market hall dated 1758, with brick walls, and a tiled roof. Ground storey originally open, with round brick arches carried on brick piles with stone caps - arches now infilled.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 89 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(40) MARKET HOUSE, on the N. side of the Cornmarket, is of two storeys and has brick walls and a tiled roof. It was built in 1758 and originally comprised an open loggia in the arcaded lower storey and a first-floor hall above. The S. front is of one bay, with an elliptical-headed gauged brick archway in the lower storey and with a Palladian window above. The roof is masked by a curvilinear brick gable, at the centre of which is a dated inscription of 1758. The E. elevation is of four bays with round-headed arches below and with plain sashed windows above; the former archways have been converted to doorways and a window, and one of them is blocked. Most of the W. elevation is masked by an adjacent house, but there is evidence that it too had an open ground-floor arcade. The first floor rests on large beams; access to the hall is by a wooden staircase with closed strings, chamfered newel posts and stout column-shaped balusters. The hall ceiling has a moulded plaster cornice.’

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Feb 16 2015 3:24PM