Corn Market, Tavistock
Corn Market, Tavistock | |
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Location | West Street, Tavistock |
Coordinates | 50°33′00″N 4°08′46″W / 50.5499°N 4.1462°W |
Built | 1835 |
Architect | Charles Fowler |
Architectural style(s) | Neoclassical style |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Cook Stores (Hardware) |
Designated | 30 May 1977 |
Reference no. | 1163573 |
The Corn Market is a commercial building in West Street in Tavistock, Devon, England. The structure, which is now used as a ladies' clothes shop, is a Grade II listed building.[1]
History
The building was commissioned by the local land-owner, John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford.[2] The site he selected, on the corner of West Street and King Street, was occupied by the Green Dragon Inn.[3][4]
The new building was designed by Charles Fowler in the neoclassical style, built with ashlar stone facings on the ground floor and with rubble masonry on the first floor, and was completed in 1835.[5][6][7] The design involved a long main frontage of eight bays facing onto King Street. The ground floor was originally open, and the bays were separated by Doric order columns carved from granite supporting an entablature carved with the words "Corn Market, Erected by John, Duke of Bedford, K. G., 1835". The first floor was fenestrated by sash windows with architraves, and above, there was a hipped slate roof. The West Street frontage of four bays adopted a similar style.[1]
The use of the building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the
In the early 1920s, the facility was branded simply as "Cinema".[13] After the Second World War, it came under the management of Archie Lewis Cinemas of Dawlish but it closed in 1963. It went on to become a hardware store known as "Cook Stores" in the 1970s. After being refurbished by Wessex Heritage in the early 1990s, it become as a ladies' clothes shop operating under the FatFace brand.[10]
See also
References
- ^ a b Historic England. "Cook Stores (Hardware) (1163573)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
- ^ "Tavistock's Farmers' Markets". Dartmoor Links. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
- ^ Transactions. Vol. 110–112. The Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art. 1978. p. 28.
- ^ "Corn Market, Tavistock". Open Plaques. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
- ^ "Tavistock Conservation Area Character Appraisal" (PDF). West Devon Council. 1 July 2009. p. 48. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-0727729392.
- ^ Beeton, Samuel Orchart (1874). Beeton's Men of the age and annals of the time. Ward, Lock and Tyler. p. 74.
- ISBN 978-1136581182.
- ISBN 978-1803990682.
- ^ a b "Cinema". Cinema Treasurers. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
- ^ "The 'Sale of the century' in 1911 that changed the face of Tavistock". Tavistock Times. 23 June 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
- ^ "Tavistock Urban District Council Act 1912" (PDF). UK Government. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-1445631301.