Town Hall
TOWN HALL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086707
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086707
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, MAIN 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:
- TOWN HALL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Egremont
- National Grid Reference:
- NY0107010878
Details
NY 01 SW (INSET) EGREMONT MAIN STREET (West
side) Egremont
9/35
Town Hall
G.V.
II
Town Hall; 1889-90 (Pevsner). Snecked rubble with quoins on chamfered plinth;
string between floors. Graduated slate roofs with stone copings, kneelers, and
finials to gables; corniced stone chimney to north end. Symmetrical 2-storey
elevation with 5-stage tower; 2:1:2 bays. Ground-floor to central tower has
panelled door and fanlight in 4-centred door-surround with cast-iron lamp
bracket above. Tower has segment-headed openings; clock to top stage.
Pyramidal roof has gablets to each side and weathervane to top. Sashes to bays
on either side of tower have triangular-headed surrounds to ground floor and
segment-headed surrounds to 1st floor; louvre above in gable. 3 sashes to each
floor on south return, all in segment-headed surrounds.
Listing NGR: NY0107010878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76131
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland, (1967)
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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