1873 - Market Hall - Longnor, Staffordshire
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Longnor was once an important market town in The Peak District. The Market Hall is dated 1873 and the plaque on the front lists a “Table of Tolls payable at Longnor Markets and Fairs”. It includes prices for buyers and sellers.
Waymark Code: WM16T0D
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/29/2022
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Longnor was once an important market town in The Peak District. The Market Hall is dated 1873 and the plaque on the front lists a “Table of Tolls payable at Longnor Markets and Fairs”. It includes prices for buyers and sellers.
"Market Hall. Dated 1873. Coursed and squared rubble with ashlar quoin strips and dressings; blue machine tile roof; verge parapets. Of eclectic style with classical, Gothic and Flemish influences. Single-storey, three- bay front, outer, recessed 3-light mullioned windows in panels with modillions at head of rebates, frieze and cornice over to parapet, ball finials at angles; central break to entrance bay taken up to cusped shaped gable, corniced at shoulders with ball and obelisk finials and strapwork consoles to flanking parapet; carved stone Crewe and Harpur arms, armorial emblems and datestone set over painted plaque of market tariffs, all within gable and over round-arched entrance; moulded surround and imposts and C20 doors with fanlight. Round-arch windows to gable ends with simple tracery. Identifies the definitive village centre, visible from some considerable distance, well set-off against the church to the north."
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The building is now in use as The Moorland Cafe.
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