TOWN HALL, WITH ATTACHED DRINKING FOUNTAIN

TOWN HALL, WITH ATTACHED DRINKING FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230876
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: TOWN HALL, WITH ATTACHED DRINKING FOUNTAIN
Statutory Address:: TOWN HALL, WITH ATTACHED DRINKING FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230876
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: TOWN HALL, WITH ATTACHED DRINKING FOUNTAIN
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN HALL, WITH ATTACHED DRINKING FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWN HALL, WITH ATTACHED DRINKING FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 63798 51906

Details

SU 63 6451 (part) BASINGSTOKE MARKET PLACE

3/29 Town Hall, with attached drinking fountain. - II

1835. A symmetrical facade of classical form; 2 storeys, 5 1st floor windows. Stucco walling: the parapet has a moulded coping and a stepped panel above a fully moulded cornice and plain frieze, the centre (above the cornice) being raised to accommodate a decorative cartouche between pilasters. At each side there are pilasters, passing through the 1st floor stage which is marked by a moulded cill band and plinth, resting on a cornice and frieze, a plain ground floor stage is divided between aide and central entrance by ½ columns separating coupled arched windows above panels; the arched doorway is part of a Tuscan porch (of 2 column 2 pilasters) with a balustered parapet. The upper windows have an architrave below a cornice and pulvinated frieze Victorian sashes to 1st floor, casements on ground floor. The classical form continues for 2 bays at each end (facing Church Street and Wote Street), extending a further 2 bays in red brickwork. C19 drinking fountain to rear, (temporarily removed at time of re-survey).

Listing NGR: SU6223851421

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Legacy System number:: 137930
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.