Description

SX 15 SW FOWEY TOWN QUAY, Fowey

868-0/2/164 Town Hall

13/03/51

GV II

Town hall. 1787 datestone. Granite ashlar with wedge-shaped lintels; dry slate parallel roofs, the rear roof lower. Rectangular plan, typical of its type with meeting room over market hall. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, (hall over basement); symmetrical 3-window front with 7 -bay arcade of round arches to ground floor. Possibly original or exact C20 copy 24-pane hornless sashes, also a similar sash to 1st floor of each return elevation and 2 windows resembling sashes to rear. Ground floor has had most openings of the former open arcade partly blocked; similar round arches and continuation of impost string to returns. Rear has altered flight of granite steps with some original iron railings, to rear left, the original 1st-floor doorway blocked and a later doorway to enlarged window opening at far left; wide elliptically-arched ground-floor doorway right of staircase. INTERIOR has its original king-post roof structure.

Listing NGR: SX1260351675

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26578577

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