Description

1.
1253 HIGH STREET
(North Side)

The Town Hall

TR 1634 NW 2/8 3.1.50

II* GV

2.
Built in 1794. The ground floor was the open Market, which consists of a carriage
entrance at each end, flanked by a stone wall fronted with rusticated stuccoed
quoins and between these carriage entrances an arcade of 2 rows of 4 Tuscan
stone columns. The 1st floor contains the Council Chamber or Guildhall. Stuccoed.
5 windows, The 3 centre window bays project slightly. Long and short quoins
to this centre projection and to both sides of the wings. Cornice and parapet
with pediment in the parapet over the centre projection. Slate roof. Tall
sash windows with glazing-bars intact. Clock on brackets projecting from the
tympanum of the pediment, presumably added later. The Council Chamber has a
fine marble fireplace with Ionic half-columns, and festoons and a festooned
overmantal to the door.

Nos 67 to 79 (odd) and Town Hall form a group.

Listing NGR: TR1619234786

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17546006

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)