Town Hall
TOWN HALL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1192631
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1192631
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, CHURCH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE4330300884
Details
SE40SW
2/43
WATH UPON DEARNE
CHURCH STREET
(north side)
Town Hall
GV
II
House later used as Town Hall and now civic offices. Built 1770
(Fleming and Hird), appears early C19 with parapet probably late
C19. Cement-rendered, roof not visible. Rectangular double-depth
plan. 2 storeys, cellars. Symmetrical 5-bay front; central 3 bays
break forward. Plinth, band-rusticated ground floor. Central,
single-storey, stone porch: C20 panelled door with fanlight flanked
by Ionic columns; pulvinated frieze, modillioned cornice and blocking
course. Flanking bays have unequal 20-pane sashes. Band to 1st floor
beneath 5 windows all with projecting sills, sashes with glazing bars
and consoled cornices. Plain ashlar frieze, cornice. Added ashlar
parapet, with stylised motif in recessed panels. Rear: 4 bays, central
2 bays break forward. Outer bays have single-storey canted bays with
pierced balustrades. Modillioned cornice.
Interior: rooms mostly subdivided. Entrance hall: 2 Ionic columns,
stone staircase to right with cast-iron balustrade. Niche at stair
landing; ornate stair-well ceiling with acanthus motif to central
feature. C20 additions to right return not of special interest.
A. Fleming and S. Hird, Wath upon Dearne As It Was, 1982, plate 10.
Listing NGR: SE4330300884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335552
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fleming, A, Hird, S, Wath Upon Dearne As It Was, (1982)
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