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market house — Parnell Street

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market house — Parnell Street
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Detached two-bay two-storey gable-fronted market house, dated 1690, on an L-shaped plan with pair of round-headed carriageways to ground floor, and two-bay two-storey return to east having two-bay single-storey double-pile wing with half-attic to south. Extensively renovated, 2000, to accommodate use as arts centre. Pitched roofs (gable-fronted to main block; double-pile (M-profile) to wing) with replacement artificial slate, 2000, replacement square rooflights, 2000, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, 2000. Painted replacement cement rendered walls, 2000, with rendered quoined piers to corners, moulded rendered courses first floor and to gable (surmounting raised lettering to gable) with moulded rendered date stone to gable. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills (forming sill course to first floor), moulded rendered surrounds, and replacement 6/6 timber sash windows, 2000. Oculus window openings to wing with concave reveals, and replacement fixed-pane timber windows, 2000. Pair of round-headed carriageways to ground floor probably originally forming open arcade with rendered surrounds having keystones, and replacement glazed timber doors, 2000, having sidelights, and overlights. Road fronted at junction of three roads with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

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