Town Hall
TOWN HALL, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184866
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184866
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, BRIDGE 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, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45691 21959
Details
PONTEFRACT BRIDGE STREET SE 4521 NE (south-east side) 8/13 Town Hall GV II
Town hall, now local authority offices. Dated 1882. By Henry Perkin and George Bertram Bulmer of Leeds. Red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar sandstone dressings; Welsh slate roof. Ground floor and tall first floor, 1 x 3 bays. Jacobean style. Bridge Street elevation: 1 bay; plinth; leaved panelled doors below fanlight in round-arched portal with ashlar archivolt and corbels; datestone between string and cornice. Portal continues up as ashlar advanced and decorative surround to 3-light window with two transoms surmounted by Diocletian window below pediment. Steeply pitched hipped roof above dentil cornice. Recessed to right, linking bay to rear range of Old Town Hall (qv Market Place), with 2-light window, and pedimented oculus above, roof hipped to right. Left return to Baxtergate: ashlar surrounds to windows, 13 to ground-floor offices; two-storey above, with blind lunettes in 3 pedimented dormers, from the outer two of which rise ridge stacks. Interior: stone steps lead up from entrance hall to galleried assembly room on first floor, which has side benches and dado underneath gallery, decorative panels to gallery front and basked-arched ceiling with transverse ribs.
Listing NGR: SE4569121959
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342652
- 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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