Town Hall and Clock Tower
TOWN HALL AND CLOCK TOWER, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144042
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall and Clock Tower
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL AND CLOCK TOWER, FORE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15218/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144042
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall and Clock Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL AND CLOCK TOWER, FORE 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:
- TOWN HALL AND CLOCK TOWER, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grampound with Creed
- National Grid Reference:
- SW9359148298
Details
GRAMPOUND FORE STREET (north side), Grampound
SW 9248-9348 WITH CREED
7/44 Town Hall and clock tower
7.1.52
GV II
Town hall with clock tower, now parish room. Probably early C18, with alterations of
C19 and C20 alterations, including the rebuilding of the clock tower in circa 1982.
Mixed slatestone rubble with granite quoins. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable
ends. The clock tower over the left end is slate-hung with a lead cupola.
Plan: The town hall is a single rectangular room, on the ground floor with a chamber
above; left sides, and two doorways at the front. Formerly heated from a rear
lateral stack. The clock tower is over the left end.
Exterior: The front is a symmetrical 2-storey, with 2 windows; built on the slope of
the ground and sloping down to the left. The ground floor has a plank door to right
and left, with 2 granite steps to left; two central C20 windows, both 2-light
casements with toplights, all with timber lintels. The first floor has two C20 2-
light windows with toplights and small gables over. The right gable end has a small
2-light C20 window at ground floor, at first floor a larger C20 2-light casement with
toplights. The left end has the segmental stone arch remaining over a single blocked
window opening at ground floor. First floor has C20 single light to right and left.
There is a central stone plaque with nowy head recording the erection of the clock
tower in 1894, and a stone plaque below which is a 1914-18 war memorial. At the rear
there is a blocked window at upper level to right. Single storey porch lean-to to
left with C20 door.
Interior: The ground floor room has painted rubble walls. There is a doorway to
rear, leading into the lean-to, with plank door with strap hinges. This is said to
have been the town lock-up. There is a straight stair leading to the upper floor,
probably of C19. The first floor room has good plaster ceiling, with central
elliptical rosette and a continuous moulded cornice at the junction with the sloping
side, all of circa early C18. There is C19 dado panelling and a C19 chimneypiece on
the rear wall, with overmantel with fielded panel. The clock in the turret is by J.
Smith and Sons, Midland Steam Clock Works, Derby, 1894. In wall cases, there are 2
sets of carved and painted wooden arms: the Royal Arms, and the arms of Grampound,
with inscription: Mayr. P.W. 1724. The Town Hall holds a vital position in Fore
Street and is an important reminder of the borough past; Grampound returned two
members to Parliament until 1831.
Listing NGR: SW9359148298
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71386
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9283
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/114082
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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