Town Hall

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

ST6718 MILBORNE PORT CP HIGH STREET (South side)

12/136 Town Hall

24.3.61

GV II

Town Hall, formerly market hall. C18. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof between coped gables and behind low parapets.

Two storeys; 3 bays long, 1 bay wide, with an early C20 extension across more than 2 bays on South side. Plinth, cornice, pilasters marking each bay with triglyph and guttae caps. Semi-circular arches to ground floor, with impost moulds and keystones: to first floor 9-pane sash windows in architraved surrounds: arches now ashlar filled, with small boarded door on East face, semi-circular 5 light windows to 2 upper arches on North side, and on South side the remaining exposed arch is blocked with boarding and a wicket door: East gable has a small open pedimented bell turret, and an octagonal clock face set in the gable: open shelter in South angle. The extension is in simpler detail, rendered on a lias stone plinth, with hipped Welsh slate roof. Interior not seen. Built as a market hall, with open arches below, it was used as a National Charity School before becoming the Town Hall. (EDB, Guide to the Parish Church of Milborne Port, 1971).

Listing NGR: ST6776618634

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1553 IOE Records taken by Murray Pearson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Murray Pearson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project