Wetherby Town Hall and Attached Front Wall
WETHERBY TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135070
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wetherby Town Hall and Attached Front Wall
- Statutory Address:
- WETHERBY TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135070
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wetherby Town Hall and Attached Front Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WETHERBY TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL, 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:
- WETHERBY TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetherby
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 40376 48198
Details
SE4048 WETHERBY MARKET PLACE LS22 5/17 Wetherby Town Hall and attached front wall
GV II
Town hall, now assembly rooms, and attached front wall. 1845, C20 alterations. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys: T-shaped plan with 1:3:1-bay entrance front and taller 4 x 2-bay range across rear. In Classical style with symmetrical front and rear elevations. Entrance front: 1-storey porch with central projection has double-door and margin-glazed overlight set between rusticated pilasters; set back to each side are margin-glazed casements and matching corner pilasters; entablature with plain frieze and pediment over the door. Side bays, set back, have inserted windows with unequally-hung 8-pane sashes. 1st floor: sill band to 3 sashes with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds to central bays (central window wider); outer bays are blind, Modillioned wooden cornice forms gutter and rises as pediment over centre with clock in arcaded ashlar panel set in the tympanum. Apex stack with twin flues linked by a keyed arch. Hipped roof. Flanking the entrance front are low quadrant walls with end piers and massive copings. Rear: 4 bays; rock-faced and rusticated quoins; sill band to C20 sashes with patterned glazing bars in reveals (original window mullions removed). 1st floor: sill band to round-headed sashes with glazing bars in recesses with corbels to an impost string course, archivolts and large keystones. More massive eaves detailed as front; hipped roof with ridge ventilators. Left return: end of taller range is as rear but has clock in architrave to lst-floor centre. Altered ground-floor windows to wing on right; blocked doorway; sash windows to 1st floor. Interior: main, assembly room has coved ceiling and boss with acanthus and palm-leaf motifs. Built at a cost of £1,300 and served as county court, assembly room, reading room and house of detention as well as accommodating the Church School. An early drawing of the building shows a more delicate eaves detail (Unwin, p.,107); early photographs of the building show the sashed mullioned windows to rear and door flanked by small windows on the left return of the entrance front (presumably the detention cell). Occupies an island site and forms the focal point of the town. R. Unwin, Wetherby, 1986, pp 106-108 and rear cover (aerial photo).
Listing NGR: SE4037648198
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341937
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Unwin, R, Wetherby, (1986), 106-108
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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