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market place — Market Square

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market place — Market Square
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Former market place with eight-bay single-storey (with attic level) outbuilding running perpendicular to road, built c.1835, rebuilt c.1990. Now in use as arts centre and café. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles. Rubble limestone walls. Segmental-headed openings with brick voussoirs containing modern units to ground floor, loop hole openings above. Cut stone gate piers (on square plan) with cut stone coping and pair of cast-iron gates, flanked by sections of coursed limestone wall surmounted by cast-iron railings to street-frontage (north). Market place enclosed by roughly coursed limestone boundary walls elsewhere. Cut limestone plaque baring dated inscription 'AD 1835' to outbuilding wall.

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