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Latitude: 52.1535 / 52°9'12"N
Longitude: 1.0518 / 1°3'6"E
OS Eastings: 608871
OS Northings: 254968
OS Grid: TM088549
Mapcode National: GBR TLD.W7H
Mapcode Global: VHLBC.54XH
Plus Code: 9F435332+9P
Entry Name: The Old Town Hall
Listing Date: 24 August 1977
Last Amended: 19 May 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1253656
English Heritage Legacy ID: 436911
ID on this website: 101253656
Location: Needham Market, Mid Suffolk, IP6
County: Suffolk
District: Mid Suffolk
Civil Parish: Needham Market
Built-Up Area: Needham Market
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Needham Market with Badley St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Architectural structure
NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (WEST)
TM 0854
3/79 The Old Town Hall
(Formerly listed as Former
Town Hall)
24.8.77 II
Former Town Hall, now subdivided into shop units. 1866, by Frederick Barnes
of Ipswich. In the Italianate style. Polychrome brick: at the ground storey
mainly of gault brick, at the upper storey mainly red. Bands of ornamental
brick at 1st floor and of a more complex form making use of polychrome and
moulded brick, beneath the eaves. Piers at each corner, the upper half
rusticated. Parapet gables with oversailing brick courses beneath a coping,
and with a chimney of gault brick at the head of each gable. 2 storeys, 5
windows. At ground storey are groups of 3 narrow sashes with border panes,
above are sashes recessed within heavy round-arched frames of gault brick. A
central entrance archway with round-arched heads and imposts, in a square set-
forward frame with various enrichments in brick. Deeply-recessed glazed
entrance doors in a glazed wooded screen. Over the entrance is a stone tablet
incised with date, patron, architect and builder.
Listing NGR: TM0887154968
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