Municipal Buildings
MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, HIGH EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1110585
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Municipal Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, HIGH EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1110585
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Municipal Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, HIGH EAST 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:
- MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, HIGH EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 69282 90759
Details
HIGH STREET EAST 1. 5191 (North Side) SY 6990 7/228 Municipal Buildings II GV
This property shall be upgraded to grade II*
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HIGH EAST STREET 1. 5191 (North Side) Municipal Buildings SY 6990 7/228 II GV 2. l847-8. Clock tower: l864 (at which time the original lantern on roof was removed). Portal: 1876. Architect: Benjamin Ferrey. Builder: Samuel Slade. Former Town Hall. Broadmayne brick, with ashlar limestone dressings (Bath above, Portland below). Pitched tile roof with moulded ashlar gable coping and polygonal finials. Moulded ashlar eaves cornice with crenellated parapet. 5 mullion and transom windows with iron glazing bars on 1st floor. 4 pointed arches with hoodmoulds on ground floor, originally an open market, now glazed. Central gabled portal on colonettes with crocketed capitals, carrying relief of Borough Arms. South west corner has oriel turret with chamfered corners taken on polygonal clasping buttress and squinches with traceried panels: band of traceried panelling at eaves Level: corbelled-out bulge at clocks' level: lead spire with sprocketed eaves, half- hipped lucarnes and weather vane. West elevation has 2 arches at ground floor level, and segmental 2 storey oriel above with crenellated parapet, panelled centre section and fixed windows with glazing bars. 2 storey extension in similar style to rear. Its neo-Tudor detail and (especially on west front) its predominant verticals resemble Clyffe Hall, Tincleton, more than Ferrey's other work in Dorset. The Municipal Buildings and Nos 28 to 33 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SY6928290759
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104325
- 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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