Old Town Hall
OLD TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142444
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1984
- 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:
- 1142444
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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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.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Dunmow
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 62734 22012
Details
TL 6222 GREAT DUNMOW MARKET PLACE (E side) 7/98 Old Town Hall
GV II
Offices, former Town Hall and former Guild Hall. C15 and later, timber framed and plastered, but with timber frame exposed on ground floor. Gabled peg tile roof with pyramid roofed bell cupola off-centre on ridgeline. Of 2 storeys, but upper floor increased in height in C19. Jettied towards W and S. Front towards Market Place has large C20 oriel on brackets on first floor with hexagonal leaded lights. The gable over has C19 bargeboards and clockface. Ground floor, has entrance door in lean-to on N. side and wide C20 mullioned and transomed window. At the SE corner is a heavy dragon post and 'bracket. S elevation has 3 large C20 mullioned and transomed oak windows witlh hexagonal leaded lights over a series of C20 leaded lights mostly fixed between the studs. The interior reveals 3 bays of heavy timber framing with chamfered 'bridging joists and dragon beam. The posts have slight shoulders and arch braces. The first floor was raised and converted in C19, to form meeting room, with spectators gallery and has C19 roof structure of 'Jacobean' character with false, arch braced hammerbeam trusses with drop pendants. Local tradition is that it was formerly the Guild Hall of St. John. RCHM 16.
Listing NGR: TL6273422012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 353315
- 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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