Old Town Hall
OLD TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139853
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139853
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD 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:
- OLD TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 49551 21072
Details
MIDDLESBROUGH MARKET PLACE. NZ 42 SE (4921) 1/52 Old Town Hall. G.V. II Town Hall, 1846 by W.L. Moffat (Doncaster). Now used as public library and community centre. Brick with stone dressings, now rendered and scored to imitate dressed stone. Welsh slate roof. Italianate. 2-storey, 5-bay (north) entrance front. Central recessed renewed double doors in slightly-projecting, keyed, segment-headed surround, under narrow entablature. Slightly-projecting end bays with clasping pilaster strips supporting continuous modillion cornice and shallow straight parapet with moulded copings. Round-headed windows, paired in end bays and in groups of 3 in centre, on ground floor, with altered and blocked glazing in quoin surrounds. Round-arched first-floor sashes,with margin lights, have keyed archivolts on tapered pilasters and corbelled projecting moulded sills; plain sill band. Shallow-pitched hipped roof. 3-bay returns have similar central round-headed doorways and ground-floor windows, altered in left return. Central Venetian window, with sashes and slender panelled pilasters flanking centre light, on first floor of right return. Lateral stacks at rear now missing. INTERIOR: first-floor council chamber has panelled doors in wood architraves, and windows with pilasters and keyed archivolts. Basket-arched panelled and beamed ceiling has 3 round vents with raised moulded boarders. Panelled front to public gallery. Dogleg staircase, leading from first floor to gallery, has shaped tread ends, stick balusters, turned newel and handrail ramped at ends.
Listing NGR: NZ4955121072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59753
- 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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