Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9596 LICHFIELD STREET, Bilston
895-1/15/19 (South side)
Bilston Town Hall

GV II

Town hall and library, now housing office. 1872-3; library
addition, 1880. By Bidlake and Lovatt. Ashlar; tile roof. 2
storeys; 6-bay range, 3rd and 6th bays are larger and break
forward. Free Classical style. Chanelled rustication to ground
floor with platt band over; 1st floor sill course and top
frieze and cornice with blocking course, 3rd and 6th bays have
parapets, arcaded parapet between; flat pilasters, paired to
1st floor 3rd and 6th bays. Ground floor has segmental-headed
windows with archivolts, imposts, keystones and casements, but
6th bay has triple window; 1st floor has architraved windows
with keystones and cornices, but 3rd bay has Venetian window
and 6th bay has triple window with paired window over;
entrance to 5th bay has head as ground floor windows. Left
return to Church St has similar details; single bay to right
and recessed 3-bay range with arcaded parapet to left of
entrance tower, which has stiff leaf cornice to battered
ground floor on high plinth; segmental-headed entrance has
short shafts with stiff leaf capitals and key, blind tympanum
and C20 paired doors; 1st floor has balcony to 2-light window
with carved capital to colonnette and imposts, blind tympanum
with segmental cornice over; bracketted cornice and clock
stage with clock faces with archivolts and keystones, cornice
and pyramidal roof with weather vane. 2-bay canted angle and
rear elevation with 2-bay return to wing with entrance, all
with similar details. INTERIOR not inspected.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.71).

Listing NGR: SO9504696507

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Bilston Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Bilston Town Hall official website
• Wikidata Q19654727

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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