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Friday, September 30, 2011

The Settling Rooms, Market Harborough, A508, Sainsbury Car Park, Leicestershire LE16 7FF

The Settling Rooms, Market Harborough, A508,  Sainsbury Car Park, Leicestershire LE16 7FF
Set in the splendid surroundings of  Sainsbury's Superstore - Market Harborough, St. Mary'S Place, Market Harborough.


Grade: II
Date Listed: 18 December 1992

MARKET HARBOROUGH CATTLE MARKET
The Settling Rooms

Market building incorporating clock tower, dated 1902, by Coales and
Johnson (C & J were architects of Market Harborough listed buildings
Hill House (109-113) Lubenham Hill and Robert Smythe School in
Burnmill Road) with stone work by Wlliam Allsop. Red brick with
limestone free-style dressings and detailing, clay tile roof, stone
copings to gable parapets. Double-pile two-storeyed building to left
with gable end stack to front range having stone dated in relief 'AD
1902' at base of shafts. Ground floor with 2 tripartite stone
mullioned windows with central section having arched transom; first
floor with moulded string at cill level, 3 stone mullioned windows of
2, 3 and 3 lights, windows 1 and 3 with classical moulded stone
lintels forming the eaves, window 2 has a taller central light
extending into central gable pediment.

Clock tower to right of 4 stages; stages 1 to 3 of brick, stage 4 of
Limestone ashlar. Polygonal clasping angles to stages 2 to 4. Ground
stage with lugged stone surround to arched doorway inscribed
'SETTLEMENT ROOMS' in relief above. Stone string course between
ground and second stage having waterleaf decoration at angles; second
stage with large stone achievement of Earls of Harborough; third stage
with tall 2-light mullioned window. Fourth stage with all four sides
alike, ashlar with clock face under segmental cornice and having stone
strapwork surround, white opaque glass face with copper numerals;
stone pineapples to clasping angles; ogee roof of copper surmounted
by wind vane with spiked ball finial.

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