Town Hall
TOWN HALL, NEWBURY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1092680
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, NEWBURY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1092680
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, NEWBURY 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, NEWBURY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 46243 48094
Details
1. 5229 WHITCHURCH NEWBURY STREET
SU 45/4647 10.1.53 Town Hall SU 45/4648 5/6
II*
2. Late C18. Two storeys, 1:1.1.1:1 windows. A symmetrical facade (east) with a tall upper floor, the middle part projecting slightly from the wings, and itself having a projecting centrepiece. Hipped tile roofing, with a continuous cornice, above which in the middle part is a parapet with coping, broken in the centre by a steep pediment, enclosing a clock face. Above the middle gable is a square turret, with corner pilasters, arched openings with keystone and impost blocks, a cornice and dome, ending in a wrought-iron weathervane. Red brick walling in Flemish bond, rubbed flat cambered and round arches, stone cills; stucco features include rustication between the impost band and plinth, first floor band. Sash windows to the upper floor, the central wider lights being within a recessed opening below a segmental arch, with verniculated impost band supporting a plastered panel with a hollow fan design. Panelled doors are at each wing, and high windows on each side of the central opening (now a glazed doorway). The other elevations are of red brickwork in English bond with a flat-roofed modern rear wing behind the north side.
Listing NGR: SU4627248154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 139400
- 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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