This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (WEST) TM 0854
3/79 The Old Town Hall (Formerly listed as Former Town Hall) 24.8.77 II
Former Town Hall, now subdivided into shop units. 1866, by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich. In the Italianate style. Polychrome brick: at the ground storey mainly of gault brick, at the upper storey mainly red. Bands of ornamental brick at 1st floor and of a more complex form making use of polychrome and moulded brick, beneath the eaves. Piers at each corner, the upper half rusticated. Parapet gables with oversailing brick courses beneath a coping, and with a chimney of gault brick at the head of each gable. 2 storeys, 5 windows. At ground storey are groups of 3 narrow sashes with border panes, above are sashes recessed within heavy round-arched frames of gault brick. A central entrance archway with round-arched heads and imposts, in a square set- forward frame with various enrichments in brick. Deeply-recessed glazed entrance doors in a glazed wooded screen. Over the entrance is a stone tablet incised with date, patron, architect and builder.
Listing NGR: TM0887154968
This is part of the Series: IOE01/2075 IOE Records taken by A G Turner; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© A G Turner. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Turner, Ag
Rights Holder: Turner, Ag
Brick, Victorian Town Hall, Civil, Meeting Hall, Public Building, Shop, Commercial, Date Stone, Commemorative, Commemorative Stone, Commemorative Monument
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