District Council Office
DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICE, ST GEORGE'S SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230338
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- District Council Office
- Statutory Address:
- DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICE, ST GEORGE'S SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230338
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- District Council Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICE, ST GEORGE'S SQUARE
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:
- DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICE, ST GEORGE'S SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Hebden Royd
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99242 27344
Details
SD 9927 EBDEN ROYD C.P. ST. GEORGE'S STREET, Hebden Bridge 5/246 District Council Office -
G.V. II
Former Hebden Royd Council offices dated 1897. Dressed stone, slate roof. 2½ storeys. Of 3 linear divisions. 1st division has main feature of porch with stilted arch with dropped keystone and carved impost. Parapet bears date. To left, and over to 1st floor, mullioned windows with transoms. Flush with projecting porch is 2nd division which has impressive canted oriel window with ogee transom, swan-neck pediment and triangular pedimented gable with circular window. 3rd division has basket arched entry with joggled voussoirs to former fire-station. 1st floor has mullioned windows with transoms with similar gable over to attic. Between each division semi-octagonal buttresses with finials. Left hand return wall has extruded stack with triangular pediment set within shaped gable with, to either side, mullioned windows with finialed buttresses to the outside. One other elaborately dressed stack to ridge. Interior: 1st floor council chamber has original fittings; horse-shoe table, canopied chairman's chair, panelled walls, coved plaster ceiling. Prominent within the town. Illustrated in Calder Civic Trust, Hebden Bridge Trail, (Bolton, no date) p.8.
Listing NGR: SD9924227344
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405241
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Spencer, C, Hebden Bridge History Trail, (), 8
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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