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The Old Town Hall & Nos. 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings

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CURIE listed-building-outline:50600/0001/0/000 no fact link
Prefix listed-building-outline Facts about Prefix
Reference 50600/0001/0/000 Facts about Reference
Name The Old Town Hall & Nos. 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings Facts about Name
Quality Authoritative: We have some data from the authoritative source no fact link
Dataset Listed building outline no fact link
Organisation Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council no fact link
Start date 1992-05-13 Facts about Start date
End date Facts about End date
Entry date 2023-12-18 Facts about Entry date
Typology geography no fact link
Geometry MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.834761 53.684255, -1.834755 53.684263, -1.834794 53.684274, -1.834789 53.68428, -1.834804 53.684284, -1.834781 53.684313, -1.834944 53.684563, -1.834959 53.684568, -1.835074 53.684504, -1.835117 53.684484, -1.835227 53.684423, -1.835238 53.684414, -1.835418 53.684316, -1.835076 53.684218, -1.834899 53.684169, -1.834875 53.684201, -1.834853 53.684195, -1.834848 53.684202, -1.834813 53.684191, -1.834761 53.684255))) Facts about Geometry
Point POINT (-1.835035 53.684348) Facts about Point
Notes The Old Town Hall & Nos. 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings Facts about Notes
Uprns 010033881286 Facts about Uprns
Description Former Town Hall, now club hall and shops. 1888. Designed by C.F.L. Horsfall. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate hipped roofs with various stacks Italianate style. Main entrance front, 2 storey, 3 windows. Central projecting giant portico, approached up a flight of steps with rusticated side walls and piers surmounted by iron finials. Pairs of Corinthian pilasters support a deep entablature and a decorated pediment. 2 round arched doorways with moulded surrounds with shafts and keystones. Above a balcony with balustrade to a large Venetian window with a moulded surround. Eitherside are single round headed windows to each floor with margin light sashes in moulded surrounds with keystones. At either corner single rusticated pilasters on the ground floor, with above pairs of Doric pilasters supporting a continuous entablature and decorated parapet with corner piers supporting urns. Above a single square cupola, with paired corner pilasters and central clock faces, surmounted by a dome with weather vane and corner urns. Eitherside pyramidal roofs rise with iron crowns, and and small circular dormer windows. Southgate front, 2 storey, 12 windows. Ground floor is divided into 6 bays by pairs of rusticated pilasters topped with brackets and pediments. The 5 bays to the right each have a shop front. The sixth bay, to the left, has a round headed doorway and blocked window both with moulded surrounds with keystones and impost band. Upper floor also 6 bays divided by pairs of pilaster strips, with a continuous plain entablature and parapet surmounted by 6 paired stacks. Each bay has 2 margin light sashes, in moulded light headed surrounds with keystones and continuous cill and impost bands. Below 6 panels with roundels and above a band with 6 roundels. Huddersfield Road front, 3 storey, 10 windows. Ground floor is divided by single rusticated pilasters, with double pilasters at corners, topped with brackets and pediments. Between 6 shop fronts. Upper floor divided 1.2.2.2.2.1. with dividing giant pilaster strips, and double pilaster strips at corners, supporting a plain entablature and parapet. Roof has 4 stone stacks. Both floors have round headed glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds with continuous cill and impost bands. Source: West Yorkshire: Architects and Architecture. Derek Linstrum. 1978. Facts about Description
Listed building 1248018 Facts about Listed building

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