Description

HAVERHILL

TL6745 HIGH STREET
816-1/5/20 (South West side)
09/05/73 Town Hall Arts Centre
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(South West side)
Town Hall)

GV II

Public hall. 1883 by Edward Sharman of Wellingborough,
donation of the Gurteen family. Red brick with stone and
glazed tile dressings and slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey plus attic. 3-bay gabled front to street
with projecting full-height central porch. On ground floor,
porch has arched openings on three sides: on first floor,
oriel window enriched with cast-iron decorative latticing to
upper lights: at attic level, geometric traceried 3-light
window. On each side of porch, both bays have paired lancets
on ground and first floors, the latter with a common
shouldered hood. Decorative cast-iron latticing recurs.
First-floor band of glazed tiles; cement rendered second-floor
band. Corbelled and dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped roof with
apex gablets pierced by octofoil roundels. Returns: 7-window
ranges with 2-light casements on both floors.
INTERIOR: closed-string staircase right of porch with turned
balusters and panelled string. Entire first floor occupied by
Council Chamber fitted with dado panelling: barrel roof on
arched braces describing semicircular profile and braced by 4
tiers of purlins.
(Crouch P: Haverhill Town Trail: Haverhill: 1981-).

Listing NGR: TL6733745299

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Haverhill Arts Centre at Wikipedia
• Haverhill Arts Centre official website
• Wikidata Q26656314

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