The Old Town Hall and Attached Piers and Railings
THE OLD TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED PIERS AND RAILINGS, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207179
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Town Hall and Attached Piers and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED PIERS AND RAILINGS, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207179
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Town Hall and Attached Piers and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED PIERS AND RAILINGS, 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:
- THE OLD TOWN HALL AND ATTACHED PIERS AND RAILINGS, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Mansfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 53824 61046
Details
MANSFIELD
SK5361 MARKET PLACE
924-1/5/66 (South West side)
17/03/78 The Old Town Hall and attached piers
and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(West side)
Town Hall)
GV II*
Former town hall, now offices, and area wall. 1836, with mid
C20 alterations. By William Adams Nicholson of Lincoln. Ashlar
with hipped slate roofs and various stacks. Greek Revival
style.
Plinth, rusticated ground floor, string course, cornice and
blocking course. 2 storeys plus basement; 3 x 4 windows.
Windows are mainly 12-pane sashes of various sizes.
Front has projecting central bay with a single window and
above it, a raised parapet with a clock face on scrolls in a
central panel. On either side, single windows. All these
windows have projecting surrounds and cornices on consoles.
Below, a tetrastyle Greek Doric portico with full entablature,
covering a central glazed double door flanked by 4-pane
windows with overlights. On either side, a single window.
Outside, central steps flanked by a spiked railing with square
ashlar piers and flat caps. At either end, steps to the
basement.
Returns have a single first-floor window with projecting
surround and cornice on consoles. Below, a shallow square bay
window with pilasters and tripartite sash.
Set back rear ranges have 3 first-floor windows with linked
cornice and recessed panels below. Below, left return has 3
windows. Right return has, to left, a recessed door with a
recessed panel and a small 9-pane window above it. To its
right, a small window, then two 12-pane windows. Beyond, to
right, a coped yard wall, with 2 doors to left, and 2 small
windows to right. To right again, a 3-storey rear range with a
coped ridge stack. Single windows on the upper floors, and
below, a blocked carriage entrance with wooden lintel and
inserted small casement.
INTERIOR has entrance hall with plaster wall panels and cross
beam carried on 2 Doric columns. Stairwell has moulded cross
beam ceiling with skylight and good quality dogleg staircase
with turned wooden balusters. Both rooms have moulded
doorcases and fielded 4-panel doors.
Transverse council chamber has guilloche frieze, moulded
cornice and panelled ceiling with rosettes. Windows have
enriched surrounds and cornices on consoles. Central entrance
has panelled recess, moulded surround and cornice on consoles,
with panelled double doors. On either side, a smaller single
door with similar surround. Fittings include a panelled wooden
war memorial, c1920.
Ante room has enriched cornice and plain marble fireplace.
Front ground-floor rooms have moulded cornices and mid C20
ashlar fireplaces.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 171).
Listing NGR: SK5382461046
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391728
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 171
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27104
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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