The Town Hall
THE TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057301
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057301
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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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:
- THE TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilchester
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52169 22696
Details
The Town Hall, Market Place. 10/68 8/68
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The Town Hall, Market Place. 10/68 8/68
------------------------------------ ST5222 ILCHESTER CP MARKET PLACE (South side) 10/68 The Town Hall l9.4.61
GV II Town Hall. 1812-1816, but incorporating parts of building of late C17 date; several C20 modifications. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof behind parapets; brick chinmey stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Plinth, cornice band, plain parapet; to lower bays 1 and 2 chamfer mullioned windows in plain recesses, 3-light without labels; to all upper bays except bay 4, 16-pane sash windows with voussoired flat arches; to lower bay 3 a large chamfered semi-circular arch with small keystone, partly blocked and with pair plain boarded studded doors inserted; pair doors in deep recess to upper bay 4, approached by large stone and concrete staircase, added in 1920, blocking out lower bays 4 and 5. West wall rebuilt 1969 with 5+5 light mullioned windows under labels at both levels replacing a large C17 20-light mullioned and transomed window. Facing rear courtyard one oak framed and mullioned window with surviving sections of lead casing and small glass panes. Inside, vestiges of a court room still evident at west end, and the first floor assembly room of 1812 with simple decorative plaster vaulted ceiling. Ilchester was the county town of Somerset and the Shire Hall of C13 or earlier, stood here; the County Court survived here until 1843 and the County Gaol until 1846. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST5216922696
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263450
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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