Guildhall
GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207867
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207867
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILDHALL, 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:
- GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thetford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 87167 82998
Details
THETFORD
TL8783 MARKET PLACE 617-1/6/101 (South West side) 10/03/71 Guildhall (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (South West side) Guildhall and Library)
GV II
Guildhall. 1901. By HJ Green. Gault brick with stone dressings. Slate roofs. L-shaped plan. 2 storeys and dormer attic. South front of bar of L consists of 5 bays of Venetian windows at first floor divided into 1-3-1 bays by pilasters. Rusticated quoins. Gabled roof with central polygonal cupola to east of a ridge stack. Stem of L faces Market Place and at entrant angle between the 2 wings is a convex projecting entrance porch with a round arch. One bay left and 3 bays right have round-headed sashes, the bays marked by engaged Tuscan columns. The stem has 3 big gables (one to each side) with Venetian windows and a central polygonal cupola mounted on a square plinth with a clock. Gabled roofs. INTERIOR: entrance leads to hallway with staircase at end: closed string, turned balusters, ramped moulded handrail and square newels. Right and left are courtrooms. Large Court to south with 4-centred barrel-vaulted ceiling. East wall with niche under a swan-necked pediment containing a Coade stone statue of Justice. Small Court to north with panelled bench intact. Main upper room has a groin-vaulted roof and is lit by Venetian windows on 3 sides. King-post roof construction. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North-west and South Norfolk: Harmondsworth: 1962-: 341-347).
Listing NGR: TL8716782998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384770
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North West and South Norfolk, (1962), 341-347
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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