Old Town Hall With Railings
OLD TOWN HALL WITH RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141923
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall With Railings
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TOWN HALL WITH RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141923
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall With Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD TOWN HALL WITH RAILINGS, HIGH 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:
- OLD TOWN HALL WITH RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weymouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 67631 78632
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6778NE HIGH STREET 873-1/23/180 (South side) 12/12/53 Old Town Hall, with railings (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Weymouth Old Town Hall)
GV II
Former town hall, now meeting rooms. c1774, extensively restored and altered 1896. Portland stone, some ashlar, mainly squared and coursed, tile roof. EXTERIOR: a 2-storey structure set into the slope to the S in Chapelhay Street, with small bell turret and porch to the W. The broad-gabled W front, with saddle-back coping, is set back from the small square porch/turret with saddle roof to a pediment over arched bell opening. Below this a 2-light window is covered by an added clock face, above a plank door in an arched opening with chamfered surround and keystone. The door is on 4 stone steps. The High Street front is in 2 storeys, with 1+3 three-light chamfered stone mullion and transom windows at each level, with cast-iron 24-pane casements under a drip-mould, continuous to the 3 to the right, and sill band at first floor. In bay 2 is a pair of plank doors to a 4-centred head, above which is a plaque with a castle and crenellations plus a coat of arms. Cast-iron gutters. The S side has plain walling, behind railings, but near the E end is a haunched gabled face dormer with a 3-light casement with diagonal panes, and a lofty eaves stack. Over the main W door is a panel inscribed: 'This town hall being restored AD 1896 Sir Henry Edwards presented the above clock to the inhabitants of the borough'. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: in front of the building is a triangular forecourt with cast-iron railings to each side, those to the right raised on a retaining wall to Chapelhay Street, in 7 bays with fluted standards to cappings and bands at 2 levels to diagonal rails. This forecourt is approached by 3 stone steps. HISTORICAL NOTE: there was a town hall here from the C16, and Buckler's sketch of 1790 shows ogee-headed windows (RCHME); a print in the NMR shows the S side with 2 dormers and 2 stacks. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 339).
Listing NGR: SY6763178632
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467644
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 339
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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