Description

HIGH STREET 1. 5407 (East End) CENTRE ISLAND The Town Hall SU 1869 1/1 II GV 2. . 1902 C E Ponting Architect. Freehandling of William and Mary and Renaissance styles. 2 storeys, brick plinth with brick ground floor and roughcast lst floor with brick quoins and dressings. String courses of brick. Steep pitch tiled roof with projecting bracketed moulded cornice. Domed arcaded lantern on ridge. Pedimented dormers. Main front is side elevation facing down High Street. Elaborate stone centrepiece with paired squat Doric columns on pedestals with vertical entablatures as imposts to entrance arch with keystones. Heavy scrolled brackets above to large renaissance bay windows with mullioned transomed lights, balcony and parapet balustrade. Elaborate stone armorial feature above. Either side of entrance on ground floor are large round headed windows with stone imposts architrave and keystone, inset panelled balustrade below sills. Dominating position closing High Street vista. The Town Hall form a group with Nos 1 to 12 (consec) and Nos 131 to 144 (consec) and Midland Bank.

Listing NGR: SU1888069196

External Links

• The Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26535579

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)