Description

SANKEY STREET
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5150 (North Side)

SJ 6088 1/111 6.12.49. Town Hall
SJ 6088 1/112 - Eastern Outbuilding
SJ 6088 1/113 6.12.49. Western Outbuilding
SJ 6088 1/114 - Lamps on east and
- west drives
SJ 6()88 1/115 - Entrance gates,
piers and lamps.
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Built 1750 by Gibbs, formerly Bank Hall, seat of Patten family. Pevsner opinion
"finest house of its date in South Lancashire". Palladian, 3 storeys, rusticated
stone facing to red brick, hipped slate roof, brick parapet, stone modillioned
cornice. Main front has slight central projection with 4 3/4 Corinthian columns
frieze and pediment with coat of arms. 9 sash windows with glazing bars, in moulded
architraves, 1st floor having alternate segmental and pointed pediment except 3
centre ones between columns, which are arched. Centre 1st floor double doors up
flight of stone steps with iron railings and 4 lamps. Curved flanking walls run
from main house to entrances to side courts. Contemporary R W Hs and pipes. Garden
front similar but no columns. Interior has 2 stone staircases with iron balustrades
and plasterwork. Detached service block at each side, long rectangular plan, similar
but not identical in detail; 2 storeys, with 3-storeyed centre finished with a
pediment, centre rusticated stone, side wings brick, whole of 13 bays. East and
west drives in front have 5 iron standard lamps with round lanterns. Entrance
gateway in front has 4 square hollow iron piers of patterned tracery, 6 iron gates
of elaborate ornament, all about 20 ft high, with 4 angels on tops of piers, and
a round arch over the centre supporting the coat of arms; this entrance was exhibited
at London Exhibition of 1862.

Nos 76 to 86 (even) Borough Treasurer's Office and Bank House Town Hall with Eastern
and Western outbuildings Entrance gates, piers and lamps, lamps on east and west
drives form a group with Nos 75, lOlA, l0lB.

Listing NGR: SJ6021888266

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Warrington Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7970736

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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