Description

NY 01 SW (INSET) EGREMONT MAIN STREET (West
side) Egremont

9/35
Town Hall

G.V.
II

Town Hall; 1889-90 (Pevsner). Snecked rubble with quoins on chamfered plinth;
string between floors. Graduated slate roofs with stone copings, kneelers, and
finials to gables; corniced stone chimney to north end. Symmetrical 2-storey
elevation with 5-stage tower; 2:1:2 bays. Ground-floor to central tower has
panelled door and fanlight in 4-centred door-surround with cast-iron lamp
bracket above. Tower has segment-headed openings; clock to top stage.
Pyramidal roof has gablets to each side and weathervane to top. Sashes to bays
on either side of tower have triangular-headed surrounds to ground floor and
segment-headed surrounds to 1st floor; louvre above in gable. 3 sashes to each
floor on south return, all in segment-headed surrounds.

Listing NGR: NY0107010878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26378299

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)