Description

MIDDLESBROUGH MARKET PLACE.
NZ 42 SE (4921)
1/52 Old Town Hall.
G.V. II
Town Hall, 1846 by W.L. Moffat (Doncaster). Now used as public library and
community centre. Brick with stone dressings, now rendered and scored to
imitate dressed stone. Welsh slate roof. Italianate. 2-storey, 5-bay
(north) entrance front. Central recessed renewed double doors in
slightly-projecting, keyed, segment-headed surround, under narrow
entablature. Slightly-projecting end bays with clasping pilaster strips
supporting continuous modillion cornice and shallow straight parapet with
moulded copings. Round-headed windows, paired in end bays and in groups of
3 in centre, on ground floor, with altered and blocked glazing in quoin
surrounds. Round-arched first-floor sashes,with margin lights, have keyed
archivolts on tapered pilasters and corbelled projecting moulded sills;
plain sill band. Shallow-pitched hipped roof. 3-bay returns have similar
central round-headed doorways and ground-floor windows, altered in left
return. Central Venetian window, with sashes and slender panelled pilasters
flanking centre light, on first floor of right return. Lateral stacks at
rear now missing. INTERIOR: first-floor council chamber has panelled doors
in wood architraves, and windows with pilasters and keyed archivolts.
Basket-arched panelled and beamed ceiling has 3 round vents with raised
moulded boarders. Panelled front to public gallery. Dogleg staircase,
leading from first floor to gallery, has shaped tread ends, stick balusters,
turned newel and handrail ramped at ends.

Listing NGR: NZ4955121072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Old Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26432665

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (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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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)