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Market Place, STOCKPORT, SK1 1EW

Built before 1671 on the site of the Rector's house. It was first mentioned as a pub in 1790. The present building probably dates from the mid 19th century. Image

The sign for the Pack Horse Image

Across the road from the entrance to St Mary's church the former Leigh Healy hair and beauty shop Image is undergoing repair work. The former NS2 fashion shop next door is gradually losing the fake stone that was covering up a mock Tudor facade.

A listed building. It is a late 18th or early 19th century house incorporating a 19th century shop front and reusing timbers of medieval or 17th century origin. The building is approached by a flight of stone steps. A low frontage wall with a cast-iron lamp standard is the parapet of 1a Mealhouse Brow, which is on a lower level owing to the slope of the land. Three storeys to the Market Place, of brick in Flemish bond, with a bracketed eaves cornice and restored sash windows. The windows have repaired stone lintels and original stone sills. A facsimile rainwater head has the date 1743, the original perhaps salvaged from another building or from an earlier building on the site. The shop front is bowed and has terracotta foliated brackets supporting a cornice on each side. The rear wall of the building incorporates timbers with mortices and peg holes. 1a Mealhouse Brow consists of a single-storey range towards the Market Place and the adjacent basement and lower basement of No. 8 Market Place. The upper rooms of this part were used for meetings of the town's manorial court leet, and incorporates two small chambers possibly used as lock-ups, The lower basement incorporates two separate chambers used for confinement until 1790 when a new prison was built. The second-storey wall has ghost advertising (partially obscured) which relates to its past use as Ladies and Gents Tailors. Currently empty, recently it was occupied by the "Vintage Style Agency" but in 2010 it was a coffee shop Image

A listed building. It is a late 18th or early 19th century house incorporating a 19th century shop front and reusing timbers of medieval or 17th century origin. The building is approached by a flight of stone steps. A low frontage wall with a cast-iron lamp standard is the parapet of 1a Mealhouse Brow, which is on a lower level owing to the slope of the land. Three storeys to the Market Place, of brick in Flemish bond, with a bracketed eaves cornice and restored sash windows. The windows have repaired stone lintels and original stone sills. A facsimile rainwater head has the date 1743, the original perhaps salvaged from another building or from an earlier building on the site. The shop front is bowed and has terracotta foliated brackets supporting a cornice on each side. The rear wall of the building incorporates timbers with mortices and peg holes. 1a Mealhouse Brow consists of a single-storey range towards the Market Place and the adjacent basement and lower basement of No. 8 Market Place. The upper rooms of this part were used for meetings of the town's manorial court leet, and incorporates two small chambers possibly used as lock-ups, The lower basement incorporates two separate chambers used for confinement until 1790 when a new prison was built. The second-storey wall has ghost advertising (partially obscured) which relates to its past use as Ladies and Gents Tailors. In 2010 it was a coffee shop Image after which has been occupied by the "Vintage Style Agency" and the "Teenage Market" but presently it is again empty. 1a Mealhouse Brow, a.k.a. the "Stockport Dungeon" Image is occasionally open for visits by the Stockport Heritage Trust.

One of the cells used as a lockup inside Stockport Dungeon Image

One of the cells used as a lockup inside Stockport Dungeon Image

Looking out of the window of the Artism Gallery Image In the window are some sellotape sculptures by artist Brin Morris. Beyond the window can be seen the Market Hall (aka the Glass Umbrella).

8 Market Place Image is a late 18th or early 19th century house incorporating a 19th century shop front and reusing timbers of medieval or 17th century origin. The second-storey wall has ghost advertising which relates to its past use as Ladies and Gents Tailors. In 2010 it was a coffee shop Image after which it became the "Vintage Style Agency" and then the "Teenage Market". In March 2015 it was home to the vintage clothes shop "Loyal Retro" Image By August 2015 it had become The Artism Gallery Image run by Brin Morris who created sellotape sculptures Image some of which could be seen sitting in the window. The gallery https://www.facebook.com/pages/Artism-UK/1478049645816889 has now moved to North Wales and the latest occupiers are Twist of Fake.