Town Hall
TOWN HALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174867
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174867
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, 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:
- TOWN HALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milborne Port
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 67764 18634
Details
ST6718 MILBORNE PORT CP HIGH STREET (South side)
12/136 Town Hall
24.3.61
GV II
Town Hall, formerly market hall. C18. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof between coped gables and behind low parapets. Two storeys; 3 bays long, 1 bay wide, with an early C20 extension across more than 2 bays on South side. Plinth, cornice, pilasters marking each bay with triglyph and guttae caps. Semi-circular arches to ground floor, with impost moulds and keystones: to first floor 9-pane sash windows in architraved surrounds: arches now ashlar filled, with small boarded door on East face, semi-circular 5 light windows to 2 upper arches on North side, and on South side the remaining exposed arch is blocked with boarding and a wicket door: East gable has a small open pedimented bell turret, and an octagonal clock face set in the gable: open shelter in South angle. The extension is in simpler detail, rendered on a lias stone plinth, with hipped Welsh slate roof. Interior not seen. Built as a market hall, with open arches below, it was used as a National Charity School before becoming the Town Hall. (EDB, Guide to the Parish Church of Milborne Port, 1971).
Listing NGR: ST6776618634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Parish Church of Milborne Port Church Guide, (1971)
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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