Description

EASTGATE
1.
1348
(North Side)
Town Hall
TF 38 NW 1/164
II GV
2.
1854. Architect, Pearson Bellamy. Elaborate building of 3 storeys in stone
and brick. Ground floor is rusticated, with plinth. Central doorway with paired
Ionic half-columns, entablature with fleur-de-lys motif. Round-arched inner
doorway with female mask and date. Cornice over doorway supports balustraded
balcony. 7 windows, all with balustraded balconies on consoles, except for the
centre one which is over the doorway, stone architraves Joined by strings, Similar
windows on upper floor, but with semi-circular pediments, moulded keystones to
arched heads, all of 4 lights. Large cornice and balustraded balcony with 6
urns, Upper floors of brick with carved rusticated quoins. At heads of 1st
floor windows, foliated circles joined by band. Side elevation is irregular.
Some vermiculated rustication and 3 bay windows. Figure of Justice on 1st floor.
Nos 33 to 39 (odd), Louth Centenary Methodist Church & Town Hall together with
Nos 2 & 4 Nichol Hill form a group.

Listing NGR: TF3284487444

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26316597

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)