Town Hall
TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047802
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047802
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET 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, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley-on-Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 75946 82619
Details
1. MARKET PLACE
5355
Town Hall
SU 7582 1/65 25.1.51
II GV
The Town Hall shall be upgraded to" GRADE II*"]
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1. MARKET PLACE
5355
Town Hall
SU 7582 1/65 25.1.51
II GV
The entry shall be amended to read:-
SU 7582 HENLEY-ON-THAMES MARKET PLACE
1/65 Town Hall
25.1.51
GV II*
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1. MARKET PLACE
5355
Town Hall
SU 7582 1/65 25.1.51.
II GV
2.
1899-1900. Architect Henry T Hare. Red brick with stone dressings.
Hipped slate roof with central cupola surmounted by gold ball and weather
vane. Central postion advanced under stone pediment with cornice and
bas relief heraldic carving in tympanum. Central Venetian window with
stone architrave breaks through eaves cornice below. Flanking double
pilasters of Ionic order above stone plinth which carries War Memorial
tablets either side of central doorway. Door set under shouldered, round
headed, stone arch and approached by a flight of steps. Narrow flanking
windows in recessed side walls in basement and floor above - otherwise
blank. This facade occupies a very prominent position in the town, closing
the western end of the vista along Hunt Street and Market Place. 11 bay
side facades. Each end advanced under pediment. Rear elevation also
with central pediment.
The Town Hall forms the focus of a group consisting of Nos 5 to 31 (odd),
No 10 and Nos 20 to 36 (even) including the barn at the rear of Nos 32
to 34 (even) Market Place. It also is part of a second Market Place group
consisting of Nos 50 to 52, Nos 62 to 66 (even) and Nos 35 to 63 (odd)
including the buildings at the rear of No 37.
Listing NGR: SU7594082622
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 17 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246213
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 11 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/31491
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/250105
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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