FORMER CORN EXCHANGE - Berwick - List Entry
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Description
Corn exchange converted to swimming pool, now vacant, with attached shop now offices. 1858, converted c.1965. Dressed stone and ashlar with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Italianate style. Two storeys. Main street front has seven window facade with moulded plinth, rusticated quoins, moulded entablature at ground and first floor, surmounted by a balustraded parapet decorated with urns. Swimming pool section to right and offices to left divided by taller square tower. Pool has off-centre entrance with C20 glazed doors in moulded ashlar surround topped with large segmental pediment, either side are single triple light windows with rounded heads in moulded pilaster surrounds and decorated keystones.....Rear facade has dramatic curved front with four round headed boarded windows...This is a good, relatively large-scale example of a Corn Exchange, a significant building in a market town. It is surprisingly little altered despite its conversion in c.1965.... -
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