Leyton Town Hall Leyton Town Hall (Part of)
LEYTON TOWN HALL (PART OF), ADELAIDE ROAD E10
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065587
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Leyton Town Hall Leyton Town Hall (Part of)
- Statutory Address:
- LEYTON TOWN HALL (PART OF), ADELAIDE ROAD E10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065587
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Leyton Town Hall Leyton Town Hall (Part of)
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEYTON TOWN HALL (PART OF), ADELAIDE ROAD E10
- Statutory Address 2:
- LEYTON TOWN HALL (PART OF), RUCKHOLT ROAD E10
- Statutory Address 3:
- LEYTON TOWN HALL, HIGH ROAD E10
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:
- LEYTON TOWN HALL (PART OF), ADELAIDE ROAD E10
- Statutory Address:
- LEYTON TOWN HALL (PART OF), RUCKHOLT ROAD E10
- Statutory Address:
- LEYTON TOWN HALL, HIGH ROAD E10
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Waltham Forest (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 38205 86297
Details
TQ 38 NE HIGH ROAD LEYTON E10 (west side) 2/41 Leyton Town Hall 1.8.86 (including blocks to Adelaide Road & Ruckholt Road)
GV II
Town hall. Dated 1895. By John Johnson. Red brick, white stone. Slate pitched roofs to parapet. A complex of 3 adjoining buildings fronting High Road Leyton, Adelaide Road and Ruckholt Road. Main block with council chamber to corner of High Road Leyton and Adelaide Road. 3 bays, 2 storeys to High Road Leyton with lower 3 storey, 9 bay wing to left. Rich Victorian Eclectic classical manner. Horizontal stone banding to ground floor. Central Ionic porch to taller block, pedimented with elaborate finial over. Square-headed sashed windows to ground floor; plate glass. Upper storey with 3 blind arcades with inset stone-lined niches and panelled pilasters between rich frieze cornice and decorative gable above and pinnacles to octagonal corner buttresses. Central timber and lead flêche to roof. Lower left hand wing with round-headed windows in continuous arcade to upper storey and 3 storey bay window to left with pediment and pavilion roof. Return to Adelaide Street with similar rich treatment carried into lower rear block, of 2 storeys, the upper blind, and with projecting Ionic entrance. Ruckholt Road front Baroque, 2 storeys, the upper blind, 3 main bays, the central bay with giant rusticated niche rising to become segmental open pediment; entrance below. Interiors not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ3820586297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206890
- 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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