Description

1. MARKET PLACE
5127
Town Hall and
Municipal Buildings
SU 4767 SW 6/120 14.5.82

II GV

2.
Circa 1878-81 town hall by James M Money in the Gothic style (after Waterhouse).
1908 municipal buildings at rear in similar style (replacing the old Mansion House)
Facade to Market Place with central, 2-storey range with 3 gabled bays; 3 storey
tower at south end; tall, 4 stage clock-tower at north-west corner above the main
entrance. Steep tiled roofs; pyramidal roof to towers with finials and gabled
lucarnes to clock tower. Polychrome red and blue brickwork with coped gables and
machicolated eaves cornices to towers. Strings at floor, sill and impost levels.
Traceried, 2-light, arched windows to 1st floor council chamber with gables over.
Clock tower with tall lancet windows, with traceried 1st floor window and balcony
over entrance. Arched doorways.
(Newbury Buildings Past and Present (1973) 44).

Listing NGR: SU4714267119

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Town Hall And Municipal Buildings at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26505633

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]