Description

HIGH STREET EAST
1.
5191 (North Side)
SY 6990 7/228 Municipal Buildings
II
GV

This property shall be upgraded to grade II*

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HIGH EAST STREET
1.
5191
(North Side)
Municipal Buildings
SY 6990 7/228
II GV
2.
l847-8. Clock tower: l864 (at which time the original lantern on roof was removed).
Portal: 1876. Architect: Benjamin Ferrey. Builder: Samuel Slade. Former Town
Hall. Broadmayne brick, with ashlar limestone dressings (Bath above, Portland
below). Pitched tile roof with moulded ashlar gable coping and polygonal finials.
Moulded ashlar eaves cornice with crenellated parapet. 5 mullion and transom
windows with iron glazing bars on 1st floor. 4 pointed arches with hoodmoulds
on ground floor, originally an open market, now glazed. Central gabled portal
on colonettes with crocketed capitals, carrying relief of Borough Arms.
South west corner has oriel turret with chamfered corners taken on polygonal
clasping buttress and squinches with traceried panels: band of traceried panelling
at eaves Level: corbelled-out bulge at clocks' level: lead spire with sprocketed
eaves, half- hipped lucarnes and weather vane.
West elevation has 2 arches at ground floor level, and segmental 2 storey oriel
above with crenellated parapet, panelled centre section and fixed windows with
glazing bars.
2 storey extension in similar style to rear.
Its neo-Tudor detail and (especially on west front) its predominant verticals
resemble Clyffe Hall, Tincleton, more than Ferrey's other work in Dorset.
The Municipal Buildings and Nos 28 to 33 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SY6928290759

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Municipal Buildings at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17541107

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)