Guildhall
GUILDHALL, GOODALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1076399
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL, GOODALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1076399
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILDHALL, GOODALL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
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:
- GUILDHALL, GOODALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 01528 98378
Details
WALSALL MB HIGH STREET (north side) SP 01 98 SE 16/48 Guildhall 13.09.82 GV II*
Guildhall. 1867, by G B Nichols, now being converted into shops (September 1985). Sandstone. Classical style. Built on sloping site, of two storeys divided by entablature, with basement at left-hand side. Six bays. Outer bays project and are flanked by pilasters, other bays divided by engaged columns: Doric on the ground floor and Composite above. Ground floor rusticated. Windows have round heads, moulded imposts, and angle shafts. Those on the ground floor have carved masks, those above have keystones. Left-hand bay has two windows, one above the other, with flat heads. The second bay is narrow and has a doorway with stepped keystone. Above is an oeil-de-boeuf. On the first floor is a niche for a statue. The right-hand bay has a doorway with round head, moulded imposts, and mask. The right-hand return wall, facing Goodall Street, is of three bays and is treated in a similar manner, except that the bays of the first floor are divided by Doric pilasters. (Fink, D: Walsall Guildhall, Walsall Local History Paper, No 4, 1984).
Listing NGR: SP0152898378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219088
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fink, D, Walsall Local History Paper in Walsall Guildhall, Vol. 4, (1984)
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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