Corn Exchange, Haverhill
Corn Exchange, Haverhill | |
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Location | Withersfield Road, Haverhill |
Coordinates | 52°05′06″N 0°26′09″E / 52.0849°N 0.4357°E |
Built | 1889 |
Architect | Frank Whitmore |
Architectural style(s) | Renaissance Revival style |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Corn Exchange |
Designated | 9 May 1973 |
Reference no. | 1375531 |
The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in Withersfield Road in Haverhill, Suffolk, England. The structure, which is currently vacant and deteriorating, is a Grade II listed building.[1]
History
The first corn exchange in the town was erected in the High Street just to the south of St Mary's Parish Church in 1857.[2][3] However, in the mid-1880s, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, to be known as the "Haverhill Corn Exchange Company Limited", to finance and commission a new and more substantial corn exchange for the town.[4] The site they selected was the forecourt of the old livestock market.[5][6]
The new building was designed by Frank Whitmore in the Renaissance Revival style, built in red brick and completed in 1889.[7][8] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto Withersfield Road. The central bay featured a short flight of steps leading up to a round-headed opening with voussoirs and a keystone flanked by Doric order columns supporting an entablature, inscribed with the words "Corn Exchange", and a balustrade. The other bays were fenestrated by a bi-partite round headed windows on the ground floor. The first floor was well set back in relation to the ground floor and was fenestrated by a tri-partite segmentally headed window with an architrave and a keystone. There was a gable above which was surmounted a double ogee-shaped pediment.[1] The architectural historian, Nikolaus Pevsner, was unimpressed with the design which he described as being "of little merit".[9]
The use of the building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the
See also
References
- ^ a b c Historic England. "Corn Exchange (1375531)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Timeline: Haverhill". Visitor UK. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ Historic England. "2 and 4, High Street (1375516)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ Kelly's Directory of Suffolk. Vol. 11. 1896. p. 152.
- ^ "Haverhill" (PDF). Suffolk County Council. p. 8. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Haverhill From the Iron Age to 1899". St Edmundsbury. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ISBN 978-0951770306.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ "Queen Street Haverhill Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan" (PDF). West Suffolk Council. 1 September 2008. p. 7. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
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- ISBN 978-1136581182.
- ^ "Haverhill – St Felix". Taking Stock: Catholic Churches of England and Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "You've been served - crumbling Haverhill Corn Exchange to be saved by St Edmundsbury Borough Council". Cambridge News. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Frustrated Haverhill Town Council drops plans to buy Corn Exchange". Suffolk News. 17 October 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2023.