Town Hall
TOWN HALL, VICTORIA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091564
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, VICTORIA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091564
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, VICTORIA STREET
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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:
- TOWN HALL, VICTORIA STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Painswick
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 86673 09724
Details
PAINSWICK VICTORIA STREET SO 8609 (part) (north side) 8/347 Town Hall GV II
Town Hall. Dated 1840 in panel to gable; in good limestone ashlar with plain tile roof. In C19 Tudor style. Set gable to street, and stands forward from adjoining building to right. Saddle-back coped gable to double stepped kneelers over a quatrefoil commemorative panel. Below this 5-light hollow chamfer case- ments with pointed heads to lights and with square stopped hood at ground and first floors above a moulded offset plinth. To the right a single storey lean- to with plank door in moulded surround at head of 4 steps; behind this a swept- down extension with prominent stack having 2 separated flues set diagonally and capped. Interior: simple work in original detail. The building replaced an earlier town hall, opposite, which was demolished in 1840. From 1844 to 1867 an upper room in the new building, then known as Stock House, was an Endowed School.
Listing NGR: SO8668209723
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 133544
- 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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