Town Hall
TOWN HALL, TOWN HALL PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165878
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, TOWN HALL PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165878
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, TOWN HALL 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:
- TOWN HALL, TOWN HALL PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovey Tracey
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81718 78583
Details
BOVEY TRACEY TOWN HALL PLACE, Bovey Tracey SX 8178
11/90 Town Hall - GV II
Town hall. Built 1866, with later additions. Squared granite and slatestone rubble with granite and limestone ashlar dressings; additions on north-west side contain some yellow brick and artificial stone. Hipped roof with asbestos slates. At north-east end is a stone gable-parapet with a pair of symmetrically-placed chimneystacks having bracketed Italianate tops. Rectangular plan, with smaller square projection at south-west end and stair turret (probably a later addition) at north-east end. A range of later buildings on north-west side. 2 storeys, with single-storey addition on north-west. The main part of the building somewhat resembles an Italian late medieval town hall with Renaissance detail added. The upper storey forms a piano nobile with 5 pointed-arched windows on each of the long sides. The basement storey is of rusticated granite ashlar, finished with a band of limestone. From it rise the tall second-storey windows, their arches of alternating granite and limestone blocks springing from a raised impost band of limestone; the windows are of 2 lights with a single glazed panel above, the heads of the mullions decorated with a 4-leaved flower. The fronts are finished with a bracketed cornice, decorated, at each corner of the building, with a low pedestal having a shaped top. At each of the north-east and south-west ends is a pair of iron rainwater pipes with heads cast as fiery dragons. Interior not inspected. The building was described in C19 as Vestry and Town Hall with police cells and constable's residence. Cost £1,300. Sources: Morris's Directory for Devonshire, 1870, p.459. Kelly's Directory of Devonshire, 1897, p.81. L Tregoning, Bovey Tracey, 1983, p.48
Listing NGR: SX8171878583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84535
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morris, , Directory for Devonshire, (1870), 459
Tregoning, L, Bovey Tracey, (1983), 48
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1897), 81
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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