Town Hall
Town Hall, King Edward Place
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038703
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Town Hall, King Edward Place
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038703
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Town Hall, King Edward Place
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Town Hall, King Edward Place
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- East Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shobnall
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 24001 23438
Details
SK 2323 SE
5/95
SK 22 SW
6/95
KING EDWARD PLACE
Town Hall
GV
II
1878 and later. Gothic style. Red brick with stone dressings. The original portion built by Reginald Churchill for Michael Thomas Bass. Two storeys with gables. Each bay has a three-light window in foil-headed stone surround with mullions and transom, the lights with foil heads and quatrefoil panels below; elaborate decoration with bands of blind quatrefoils at first storey and to parapet; coped gabled and stone piers with pinnacles supporting figures of lions bearing standards.
Later portion, on left-hand side, is of 1894 and in similar style, with clock tower and doorway below in stone surround and with wrought iron porte-cochere. Two storeyed wing to left is of three bays, each with three-light stone mullioned window, the centre bay projecting and with gable and angled buttresses. Elaborate single storeyed wing on left-hand side containing concert hall has various projecting gabled bays with pointed arched windows and an arched doorway to right. Tiled roofs.
Listing NGR: SK2400123438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 273005
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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