Description

HUNGERFORD HIGH STREET (West side)
SU 3368
18/41 Town Hall
G.V. II
Town Hall. 1870 by Ernest Prestwick of Leigh in Lancashire. Slate roof
with parapet at front and corbelled eaves at side, lead cupola and balcony,
red brick with yellow moulded dressings, stone copings, cornices, bell arch
balustrade and columns. Bracketed cornices, patterned frieze, chanelled
brick pilasters with stone capitals. Meeting rooms at front with stair to
rear and corn exchange hall at right angles to rear. 2 storeys. Road
frontage: Balcony over loggia to left, clock tower over entrance to right,
3 semi-circular arched glazing bar sashes in recessed yellow brick arches
with drip moulds and moulded imposts; balustraded balcony over loggia at
first floor, 3 semi-circular arched openings with moulded yellow voussoirs
on 2 columns and ½ columns with oversized simplified leaf capitals and plain
bases on 3 steps, 3 glazing bar sashes in recess; clock tower has cupola
with iron weathervane over clocks in aedicules set on bracketed cornice with
moulded frieze, above 3 stilted arched headed louvred vents with moulded
strings, yellow band and square columns between with moulded caps, beneath
these are double arched windows with columns and ornate decoration in
tympanum of large outer arch. Stone balcony on brackets over arched
entrance opening with deep leaft ornamented, bracketed caps to wide brick
piers with roll mould corners and dog tooth ornament in channels. Stone
plinth and three steps up. B.O.E. p.156.

Listing NGR: SU3374768537

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hungerford Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26505643

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)