Description

REIGATE CASTLEFIELD ROAD
TQ 2550 SW
12/10000 TOWN HALL
GV II

Formerly Town Hall, Court House and fire station, now Town Hall and
Citizens Advice Bureau. Designed in 1899 by Hugh McIntosh and Newman and
completed in 1901. Arts and crafts style. Red brick in Flemish bond and
bath stone dressings, slate roof and. stone stacks. The main building
comprised 2 haves built in mirror image, the Court House and Police to
right and Municipal buildings to left with an attached Fire Station linked
to the left by a verandah. The main building is of 2 storeys with 8 windows
to the centre, but large projecting pavilions at either end -with 3 bays.
The centre has 8 windows but the penultimate ones on either side are in
projecting open pedimented gables on elaborate pilasters with tall round-
headed stair-case windows of modified Venetian form. Below these are
elaborate cambered arched doorcases with 3 giant keystone and panelled
pilasters. Above are stone panels with the words "Municipal Buildings" over
left side entrance and "Court House and Police" over right side entrance.
Set back double doors with a side light and letter box with stone swags and
mash ornament above the municipal buildings entrance. Parapet with moulded
coping and cornice. 1st-floor has 6-round-headed cross casements with
strapwork design in the tympanum and stained glass roundels. Ground floor
has 4 cambered headed mullioned and transomed casements; 5 light to centre
and 2 light at ends. Projecting pavilions of 2-storeys 3-windows have
hipped roofs with octagonal lead cupolas with wooden louvres and copper
finials. Deep bracket eaves cornice. 1st floor has 3 round-headed Venetian
type windows with swansneck pediments to centre. Right hand pavilion has
additionally a basement with similar windows to the ground floor which are
cambered casements. Right side elevation has an elaborate brick and stone
chimneystack and similar windows to the front of the pavilion@. Rear
elevation has a series of gables with round headed windows to 1st floor and
later central extension in matching materials of 2 storeys and attics; 3
bays with hipped roof, square cupola and similar windows to the front.
Attached to the main building by a brick cambered arched verandah (now
glazed in) is the former Fire Station now Citizens Advice Bureau built in
identical materials. 2 storeys and attics; 3 windows. Front has hipped
slate roof. Central attic gable supported on pilasters which are in turn
supported on a broken cornice. Cambered 3-light sash to attic and 3 similar
,windows to 1st floor. Ground floor has 3 cambered 4-light windows and
central cambered opening for fire engines, glazed in C20. Attached to the
right hand corner is the principal feature of the building, a 4-storey
tower with pagoda-style stone roof. The top stage is open with large
bracket cornice, corner piers, 2 columns with Ionic derived capitals and
stone balustrading. End quoins. Mainly slit windows, apart from 1st floor
3-light cambered opening elevated by pilasters. The interior is
particularly opulent to the Municipal buildings side. Ground floor
corridors have 2'tone green glazed tiles. Staircase has white marble
balustrading and square post with elaborate brass lamp. Side have dado
panelling and red marble. Original Council Chamber has particularly fine
Art Nouveau decoration. Windows have multi-coloured stain glass with rose
motif. Stone fireplace has cambered arch with 8 masks of children'and above
the emblem of Reigate flanked by half-columns. Half-paneled walls with
pilastered doorcase. Ovolo moulded plaster band above. Ceiling of crown-
post and bracket cornice with swags between. Most unusual deep plastered
frieze has a panel with Mercury on one side and Venus 'on the other with
young girls in contemporary dress representing various virtues including
Industry, Agriculture, Painting, Sculpture, Music, Architecture, Justice
and the Martial Arts. Large pilastered oval ceiling rose with masks and
swags. Doors have elaborate brass finger boards with,heart motif. Marble
dado panelling to 1st floor corridor and tessellated pavement. Mayors
Parlour has_elaborate -ceiling roses. Members cloakroom has wooden fireplace
with Art Nouveau foliate motifs. Court House and Police side is more
restrained with almost identical main staircase of painted wood and tiled
dado. Staircase window has stained glass window with Royal Coat of Arms.
Former Magistrates Court has oak panelling, paired bracket cornice and
moulded beams on corbels. 4 police cells survive in the basement. I having
complete iron door with spyhole and food hatch.

Listing NGR: TQ2539550459

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Reigate Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26551495

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