Guildhall
GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236337
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236337
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILDHALL, HIGH 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:
- GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Test Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Andover
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 36471 45528
Details
SU 3645 NW ANDOVER HIGH STREET 4/56 Guildhall 24.2.50 II* Formerly Town Hall, 1825. A successor to a guildhall of 1725 to 1825, of similar form. A Greek Doric stone building, almost a cube, with 4 symmetrical elevations, a typical English Renaissance design, of a tall room above an open arcaded ground floor (now enclosed). The front (south) is of 1.3.1 bays. Blocking course above a Doric cornice, with omutile boxes, continuous frieze (without triglyphs) and continuous guttee below a tenia, plain architrave (with circular decorations above the columns); the central pediment encloses a circular opening containing a clock; 4 fluted Doric columns (3/4 attached) stand on the projected centrepiece, the wings terminating in parallel-sided pilasters. With a continuous base moulding. First floor band (continued into keystones), rusticated ground floor of 4 bands above an impost band then 5 bands above a (granite) plinth. Sashes in reveals to the upper floor, half-glazed filling of later date to the ground floor openings. The north elevation has a plainer upper part and fanlights within the arcade but the centre 3 bays of the ground floor project forward, with a pediment and central entrance. The side elevations (east and west) are the same, of 5 bays, having a regular pilaster treatment to the upper floor. Low-pitched hipped slate roof (unseen). Within the north side entrance leads to a lobby, with staircases on each side leading upwards through an apse with 2 niches to an upper lobby from which a single flight reaches the upper hall. [There was once a central clock tower].
Listing NGR: SU3647045523
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 139514
- 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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