Town Hall
TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132346
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132346
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Settle
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 81979 63660
Details
SETTLE MARKET PLACE SD 8063-8163 (south side) 10/27 Town Hall GV II Town hall with shops on ground floor, by George Webster of Kendal. Dated 1832. Gothic Revival style. Rubble, stone dressings, slate roof. 3 storeys, 6 bays. South (Cheapside) entrance has 3 gabled sections, the central one projecting, each 2 bays wide. A central porch has 3 arches with 2-centre heads. A door to left and right has 2-centre heads flanking a 3-light mullioned and transomed window with a 2-centre head. Similar window and entrance to shop to left and right. Datestone inscribed 'ERECTED 1832' in style similar to that at Taitlands, Stainforth (qv). Upper floors contain a variety of details in early C17 style including chamfered mullioned and transomed windows with dripmoulds stepped and decorated gables and finials. Left and right hand ridge stacks. Remaining facades have 3 gables and 2-light windows on the ground floor except the east side which has had the mullions and transoms cut out and plate glass inserted. The west (Duke Street) entrance was blocked to give access to the later convenien- ces in the basement; central oriel window on first floor with clock above in stepped gable and bell capped by gabled hood with finial. North (Market Place) facade has right-hand oriel window on first floor. The hall is sited in a prominent position at the southern end of the Market Place.
Source: A Taylor and J Haworth, The Websters of Kendal (1973).
Listing NGR: SD8197963660
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324326
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Haworth, J, Taylor, A, The Websters of Kendal, (1973)
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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