Town Hall and Guildhall
TOWN HALL AND GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1160184
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall and Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL AND GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1160184
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall and Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL AND GUILDHALL, 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:
- TOWN HALL AND GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ2738742564
Details
NZ 2742 NW
9/232
19.2.70
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
MARKET PLACE
(West side)
Town Hall and Guildhall
GV
II*
Town hall and Guildhall. C17 Guildhall with C18 alterations; 1851 town hall
and front range by P.C. Hardwick. Coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings;
roof of graduated Lakeland slate. Perpendicular style. 2 storeys and attics;
4 bays. 3-bay Guildhall at left has 3 Tudor-arched doorways with chamfered
surrounds; paired windows flank the central which has carved panels above
dated 1850; large stone brackets support first-floor balcony to high, wide
central 3-light window and tall 2-light flanking windows with tracery; drip
moulds and relieving arches above. Central spherical-triangular attic window
in coped gable; battlemented coping over side bays; tall end buttresses.
6 wide steps up to set-back right entrance to town hall: 2-centred arch with
head-stopped drip mould and canopied niche; linen-fold panelling on double
doors; 2-light windows flanking niche and 3-light above have stone mullions,
with transoms to top window, and Tudor-headed lights. Steeply-pitched roof
has tall crocketed spirelet over ridge ventilator, and paired coped ashlar
polygonal chimneys.
Interior: Guildhall, built 1665, has high wood panelling on west wall with
plaster above; renewed arch-braced 3-bay roof on shafted wood corbels. Arms of
William and Mary above panelling; Mayor's Chamber adjoining to north has 1752
panelling, 2-panelled doors and C20 coved ceiling; Jacobean chimney piece
and overmantel transferred from former Red Lion Inn, now part of Hatfield
College. North Bailey: figures in contemporary dress of gentleman, king and
soldier. Town hall at west, above covered market (q.v.) has panelled walls
with commemorative painted panels; hammer-beam roof with much carved decoration;
high stone-hooded chimney piece and linen-fold panelled double doors. Entrance
hall has one medieval head-carved stone corbel, perhaps a survival of the 1356
Guildhall on the site.
Listing NGR: NZ2738742564
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110284
- 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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