Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Old Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26545389

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)