NHER 13310 (Building record) - Market House, 24 Market Place and Market House Cottage, Herring Lane, Burnham Market

Market House (formerly Lime Tree House) and Market House Cottage (formerly Lime Tree Cottage).

June 1953. Listed, Grade II*.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"House. Earlier, perhaps 17th century, build with applied early 18th-century façade. Flemish bond brick mixed red and smut pantiled roof. Three storeys, five bays. Ground floor has four outer sashes with glazing bars, two inner thinner sashes with glazing bars flanking the door.
Market House Cottage is attached at rear."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Beers (HES), 27 August 2020.

February 1978. Field Observation.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU):
House on corner of Herrings Lane. Red brick, Georgian, three storeys with parapet, seven bays. Narrow window each side of door but on upper storeys these have been blocked. Roman Doric porch. String course above first floor.
Good condition.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU) 21 February 1978.
Information from (S2).

Market House, formerly Limetree House. (S1) suggests 17th century core as façade is apparently applied.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU).
Information from (S2).

July 2006. Field Observation.
Detailed inspection of building, and comparison with painting of house of around 1680 and photograph of 1900, indicates that above comments are not entirely correct. There may be evidence of an older flint core but the basic appearance of the present house was the same around 1680; however an attic storey of dormers was replaced by a full top storey in the style of the original building probably around 1720. Various additions and alterations made at the same time. High quality internal panelling of either 1680 or 1720. In the 19th century a shop front was inserted but in the 20th the original appearance was carefully restored.
See report (S3) for further details.
E. Rose (NLA), 9 August 2006.

Also noted in (S4).