TOWN HALL INCLUDING SCREENS AND PUBLIC LAVATORIES ADJOINING NORTH EAST AND SOUTH

TOWN HALL INCLUDING SCREENS AND PUBLIC LAVATORIES ADJOINING NORTH EAST AND SOUTH, MARKET SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1235026
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1992
List Entry Name:: TOWN HALL INCLUDING SCREENS AND PUBLIC LAVATORIES ADJOINING NORTH EAST AND SOUTH
Statutory Address:: TOWN HALL INCLUDING SCREENS AND PUBLIC LAVATORIES ADJOINING NORTH EAST AND SOUTH, MARKET SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1235026
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1992
List Entry Name:: TOWN HALL INCLUDING SCREENS AND PUBLIC LAVATORIES ADJOINING NORTH EAST AND SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN HALL INCLUDING SCREENS AND PUBLIC LAVATORIES ADJOINING NORTH EAST AND SOUTH, MARKET SQUARE

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 INCLUDING SCREENS AND PUBLIC LAVATORIES ADJOINING NORTH EAST AND SOUTH, MARKET SQUARE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 75854 23018

Details

The following building shall be added to the list:-

BRAINTREE MARKET SQUARE TL 7523 (east side) Town Hall 1/10000 including screens and public lavatories adjoining NE and S

GV II*

Town Hall, now used as public information centre, museum etc. 1926-8. By Vincent Harris financed by gift of W J Courtauld. Red Flemish bond brick with Portland stone dressings, porch and cupola. Concrete roof structure. Hipped plain tile roof. Double-pile plan with spine corridor, expressed externally as U-plan with flat roof over stair hall between the wings at rear. Two storeys and basement with Piano Nobile. 5-bay front. Moulded cornice and first floor band; sill band to ground floor windows and plinth. Central Doric porch surmounted by balustrade with urns at angles. Unequal 20-pane sashes. Piano Nobile. 24-pane sashes in moulded architraves with cornices and aprons. Central French windows beneath fixed light. Architrave with consoles to egg-and-dart cornice and foliate volute supporters. Doric cupola in three stages with dome surmounted by female figure with mirror representing motto 'Hold to the Truth'. Clock face and coat of arms. Side elevations three bays with similar detailing to front, but two 24-pane sashes to first floor with small square central light. Similar detailing to rear except round-headed stained glass window to stairhall in eared architrave with key block and carved spandrels. Screen wall to north elevation has pair of round-headed pedestrian gates, dwarf wall and pair of gateposts surmounted by urns with wrought iron gates. Screen wall to South elevation with central gates and public conveniences to rear. Interior: Complete decorative scheme survives virtually unaltered with panelled rooms and door and light fittings etc. Principal features are the stone entrance hall; vaulted spine corridor; Imperial staircase with wrought iron balustrade. First floor Council Chamber barrel-vaulted with scenes painted on copper panels in the lunettes by Maurice Greiffenhagen, RA. Chairman's room murals of the Four Seasons by Henry Rushbury RA, and a County map on the ceiling.

Listing NGR: TL7585423018

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Legacy System number:: 411144
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.