Description

ST 8622 2/59

HIGH STREET (South Side)
Town Hall

20.6.52.

GV
II
Built by Richard, Marquess of Westminster, in 1837. Tower 1879, rebuilt
1925. Ground floor reconstructed 1926. Stone ashlar building with 5-window
fronts, that to High Street being 2-storey, and that to Gold Hill, where
the ground falls away, 3-storey. Castellated parapets, Small central
tower has open pediment and clock. The windows are mostly 5-light casements
with Gothic heads to lights and diagonal glazing-bars, On the lower floors
the openings have 5-centred heads, those to the lower ground floor facing
Gold Hill having wrought-iron gates. Facing High Street there is a central
castellated porch and contemporary railings.

The Town Hall Church of St Peter, The Mitre Inn and Nos 25 to 31 (odd)
form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8627222940

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Shaftesbury Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26402490

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)