Town Hall
TOWN HALL, 18, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228223
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, 18, MARKET STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228223
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, 18, MARKET 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, 18, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittlesey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 26943 97060
Details
TL 2697 WHITTLESEY MARKET STREET (North Side) 19/119 No. 18 (Town Hall)
GV II
Fire Engine house with town hall over. The ground floor is now a Museum and Office. Dated 1857. Grey gault brick with red brick dressings and steeply pitched roof, now covered with asbestos slates. End stack of gault brick. Double eaves cornice of both dentil and sawtooth red brickwork. Two storeys framed by red brick rusticated quoins. Red brick round headed arches to range of five windows at first floor. Between the storeys, four moulded terracotta panels set diagonally, each with a numeral 1, 8, 5 or 7. Cut and moulded red brickwork to arches and voussoirs of engine house openings, now part glazed and blocked. The words "fire engines" are painted, to the arches. Central doorway with double recessed round headed archway of red brick, the tympanium of the arch filled with faience tiles. Double doors. Inside: There is a lockup with original door, and louvre above. The town hall, which was also the Magistrates Court, possibly has its original hammerbeam roof although this is now concealed by the later inserted roof.
Listing NGR: TL2692697068
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402793
- 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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