Description

SU 3645 NW ANDOVER HIGH STREET
4/56 Guildhall
24.2.50
II*
Formerly Town Hall, 1825. A successor to a guildhall of 1725 to 1825, of similar
form. A Greek Doric stone building, almost a cube, with 4 symmetrical elevations, a
typical English Renaissance design, of a tall room above an open arcaded ground floor
(now enclosed). The front (south) is of 1.3.1 bays. Blocking course above a Doric
cornice, with omutile boxes, continuous frieze (without triglyphs) and continuous
guttee below a tenia, plain architrave (with circular decorations above the columns);
the central pediment encloses a circular opening containing a clock; 4 fluted Doric
columns (3/4 attached) stand on the projected centrepiece, the wings terminating in
parallel-sided pilasters. With a continuous base moulding. First floor band
(continued into keystones), rusticated ground floor of 4 bands above an impost band
then 5 bands above a (granite) plinth. Sashes in reveals to the upper floor,
half-glazed filling of later date to the ground floor openings. The north elevation
has a plainer upper part and fanlights within the arcade but the centre 3 bays of the
ground floor project forward, with a pediment and central entrance. The side
elevations (east and west) are the same, of 5 bays, having a regular pilaster
treatment to the upper floor. Low-pitched hipped slate roof (unseen). Within the
north side entrance leads to a lobby, with staircases on each side leading upwards
through an apse with 2 niches to an upper lobby from which a single flight reaches the
upper hall. [There was once a central clock tower].

Listing NGR: SU3647045523

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Andover Guildhall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17539454

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (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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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)