Description

HIGH STREET
1. (North East Side)
5187
No 30
SZ 1592 1A/98 (The Town Hall)

II GV

2.
1859. Upper floor and cupola a replica of old Town Hall of 1746 which stood
in the centre of the High Street, Church Street, Castle Street junction. Red
brick with white stone dressings, stone eaves cornice and balustrade. Hipped
slate roof with centre domed cupola. Stone quoins, 1st floor string course and
plinth. Stone centre bay under pediment flanked by Doric pilasters. 2 storeys.
5 windows, centre 1st floor Venetian window with balcony. Ground floor windows
and door round arched with moulded stone architraves and keystones, centre 1st
floor same. Side windows 1st floor have gauged rubbed brick arches with triple
stone keys. All windows unbarred sashes. Added ground floor canopy.

The Town Hall, Nos 38, 38a, 42 to 46 (even) and The Ship Hotel form a group with
Nos 25 to 29 (odd), No 31, Nos 43 and 45 and with the walls at the rear of No
29 and those in the Druitt Gardens, Nos 25, 31, 45, 38, 38a, and No 46 are buildings
of local interest.

Listing NGR: SZ1579092835

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26610284

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)