{"entry-date":"1994-05-02","start-date":"1994-05-02","end-date":"","entity":42148143,"name":"Town Hall","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"390615","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":344,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.521494 50.481208, -3.521524 50.481227, -3.521568 50.481201, -3.521574 50.481201, -3.521678 50.48114, -3.521677 50.481137, -3.521684 50.481133, -3.521621 50.481093, -3.521637 50.481082, -3.52157 50.481039, -3.521445 50.481111, -3.521382 50.481066, -3.521257 50.481136, -3.521328 50.481181, -3.521334 50.481177, -3.521404 50.481227, -3.521431 50.48121, -3.521436 50.481213, -3.521437 50.481222, -3.521442 50.481231, -3.521453 50.481237, -3.521451 50.481243, -3.521487 50.481243, -3.521488 50.481236, -3.521494 50.481229, -3.521496 50.481224, -3.521494 50.481208)))","point":"POINT (-3.521479 50.481142)","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Town Hall. 1883 by Bridgman. Snecked rock-faced local grey limestone with Ham Hill and ashlar limestone dressings. Natural slate roofs: hipped, gabled and mansard; with fish-scale slates to the entrance tower. Stacks with yellow brick shafts with corbelled caps. PLAN: On a corner site between Fore Street and Manor Road with a circular entrance tower recessed in the angle between the blocks. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Ham Hill and limestone ashlar bands and moulded strings; windows mostly round-headed with moulded stone arches; ground floor windows glazed with 2-pane sashes; second floor windows transomed casements with stained glass above the transoms. Asymmetrical front: 5 windows to Fore Street; 3 windows to the entrance tower; 4 windows to Manor Road. 3-stage entrance tower with a round-headed doorway with plain fanlight and Ham Hill architrave with keyblock. Original door with horizontal panels, round-headed windows to left and right. Above the doorway a stone balustraded balcony on big moulded consoles. Round-headed French window onto balcony, flanked by smaller windows. The third stage of the tower has 3 windows, flanked by Ham Hill pilasters with an entablature. Corbelled eaves brackets above with a cornice to the pyramidal slate roof which has sprocketed eaves. Manor Road elevation of 1:3 bays, the 3 bays symmetrical and gabled to the front in the centre bay with parapets to the flanking bays all above deeply projecting cornices. Central round-headed doorway with original door, flanked by windows. Big central first-floor stone-mullioned 3-light window with 3 transoms, to light hall; flanked by round-headed windows; large oculus to centre bay above. The left-hand bay of this elevation has a gabled parapet and one ground and one first-floor window. 2:2-bay Fore Street elevation, broken forward to the left, which is 3 storeys with a hipped roof. Mansard roof to the right with attic dormers. INTERIOR: Not inspected but said to retain original features. Listing NGR: SX9214865701","listed-building":"1208816"}