Description

SU 5832 NEW ALRESFORD WEST STREET

13/103 Community Centre
(Town Hall)

GV II

Civic hall. Mid C19. Brick, stucco features, and a slate roof. A building
of classical form, with a symmetrical front (north), prominent in the local
setting, of 2 storeys, 3 windows. Yellow brick walling, stucco dressings;
plinth, cambered arches to the ground-floor wide openings (containing fan-
lights above double 1 ½-glazed doors), 1st floor moulded band, moulded cill
band to 1st floor windows, which have round heads and sashes, moulding above
the frieze, and a modillion cornice, which also follows a steep pediment,
enclosing a small circular opening. To the east side is a single-storeyed
entrance, with a recessed plain arch within an arch having a keystone and
impost mouldings; above the arch is a parapet containing swag ormamentation,
and a coping. Arched windows occur in the upper part of the east side, over-
looking the entrance corridor, which ends as a square 2-storeyed block
(prominent when seen from the churchyard), with coupled arched windows to
the upper floor, eaves cornice, and low-pitched pyramid roof.

Listing NGR: SU5882032674

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Alresford Community Centre at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26387526

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)