REDESDALE HALL (TOWN HALL)

REDESDALE HALL (TOWN HALL), HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088683
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:: REDESDALE HALL (TOWN HALL)
Statutory Address:: REDESDALE HALL (TOWN HALL), HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088683
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:: REDESDALE HALL (TOWN HALL)
Statutory Address 1:: REDESDALE HALL (TOWN HALL), HIGH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: REDESDALE HALL (TOWN HALL), HIGH STREET

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Moreton-in-Marsh
National Grid Reference:: SP 20465 32436

Details

1. 5224 MORETON-IN-THE MARSH HIGH STREET Redesdale Hall (Town Hall) SP 2032 SW 2/43 25.8.60

II GV

2. 1887. Architect Sir Ernest George, patron Lord Redesdale of Batsford Park. An early example of the free Tudor style. Two storeys in golden, ashlar quality rubble. Six bays. Cotswold stone roof with coped verges, finials and footstones. Moulded eaves. Low diagonal buttresses; cill string to first floor. The roof is distinguished by 2 asymmetrical features: a clock turret on the ridge with pinnacles and crown bracing to a small cupola, and a tall crenellated lateral stack rising from a gable over a sundial on the East front. In 2 parts: south part with 3 centred arches to ground floor, 4 to east, 2 to south, blocked and containing 3 light mullion windows, one open on south end. The north section more domestic with 2-light Tudor-head windows. On first floor 3 similar windows of 4 lights across the east front and 2 tall ones to south gable of 2 lights and with 2 transoms. Redesdale arms in carved panel to south. North and west fronts similar. Crested gutter and lead rainwater heads. Interior: ground floor divided by posts for each bay, arcaded staircase with turned balusters and straight string to south-west corner. The first floor room is of 6 bays with arch-braced trusses and crested wall-plate to open ceiling. French Renaissance-style corbelled fireplace with radiused cornes and carved panel with Redesdale arms. Gallery to south. Panelled dado. Armorial glass.

Listing NGR: SP2041932390

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Legacy System number:: 126657
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.