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Latitude: 53.7856 / 53°47'8"N
Longitude: -2.4077 / 2°24'27"W
OS Eastings: 373235
OS Northings: 432224
OS Grid: SD732322
Mapcode National: GBR CSMN.JP
Mapcode Global: WH96W.Z3NP
Plus Code: 9C5VQHPR+7W
Entry Name: Town Hall
Listing Date: 9 March 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1206022
English Heritage Legacy ID: 183882
ID on this website: 101206022
Location: Great Harwood, Hyndburn, Lancashire, BB6
County: Lancashire
District: Hyndburn
Electoral Ward/Division: Netherton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Great Harwood
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Great Harwood St Bartholomew and St John
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: City hall Seat of local government
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GREAT HARWOOD
TOWN FALL SQUARE
Town Hall
GV
II
Town Hall, 1900, by Briggs and Wolstenholme (Pevsner). Ashlar, hipped slate roof with two ridge chimneys (and two chimneys and rear). Rectangular plan, five x four bays. Two and a half storeys in free Baroque style; symmetrical, with slightly projecting gabled wings and three-bay centre. Plinth, string course, first floor sill band, moulded cornice which carries across face of gables. Central doorway has Gibbs surround and segmental pediment rising from the string course; flanking the door are pairs of sashed windows with coupled Gibbs surrounds, and in the wings are stilted lunettes with tripartite sashed windows. First floor has coupled windows in the centre, triple windows in the wings, all with Gibbs surrounds and cornices. Each wing has corbelled polygonal corners to first floor, continued above the cornice as turrets with ball finials flanking the finialled gable, which contains a bullseye with archivolt. Right return wall in similar style. Left end linked at first floor to adjoining bank (q.v.) by a matching arch with a finial.
Listing NGR: SD7323532224
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