Town Hall

Description

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

SOUTHWOLD

TM5076 MARKET PLACE 588-1/7/79 (North side) 21/04/49 Town Hall

GV II

House, now Town hall. c1810; converted to Town Hall in early C20. Gault brick with hipped roof of black-glazed pantiles. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. To left, 6-panelled door with plain overlight set in plain doorcase: two 6/6 horned sashes to right replace fire station doors. First-floor windows are 6/6 unhorned sashes under gauged skewback arches: on second floor, similar 3/6 sashes. Full-width cast-iron balcony to first floor. INTERIOR: straight staircase with turned balusters. First floor: Council Chamber, formerly 2 rooms, has 2 mid C19 fire surrounds and floral and acanthus plaster cornices. Stained glass portrait roundels in windows of former mayors and worthies. (Bottomley A & Hutchinson J: Discovering Southwold: Southwold: 1988-: 2-3; Jenkins AB: A Hundred Years of Southwold in Photographs: Southwold: 1983-: 14-15).



Listing NGR: TM5080876166

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0405 IOE Records taken by Angela Clark; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mrs Angela Clark. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project