The Old Town Hall and 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings
1 to 11, Town Hall Buildings, Huddersfield Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248018
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Town Hall and 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- 1 to 11, Town Hall Buildings, Huddersfield Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248018
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Town Hall and 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 to 11, Town Hall Buildings, Huddersfield Road
- Statutory Address 2:
- The Old Town Hall, Huddersfield Road
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:
- 1 to 11, Town Hall Buildings, Huddersfield Road
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Town Hall, Huddersfield Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 11002 20880
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 April 2021 to reformat the text to current standards
SE 12 SW
1669/2/10003
ELLAND
HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
The Old Town Hall and Nos 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings
II
Former Town Hall, now club hall and shops. 1888. Designed by C.F.L. Horsfall. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate hipped roofs with various stacks. Italianate style. Main entrance front, two storey, three windows. Central projecting giant portico, approached up a flight of steps with rusticated side walls and piers surmounted by iron finials. Pairs of Corinthian pilasters support a deep entablature and a decorated pediment. Two round arched doorways with moulded surrounds with shafts and keystones. Above a balcony with balustrade to a large Venetian window with a moulded surround. Eitherside are single round headed windows to each floor with margin light sashes in moulded surrounds with keystones. At either corner single rusticated pilasters on the ground floor, with above pairs of Doric pilasters supporting a continuous entablature and decorated parapet with corner piers supporting urns. Above a single square cupola, with paired corner pilasters and central clock faces, surmounted by a dome with weather vane and corner urns. Eitherside pyramidal roofs rise with iron crowns, and small circular dormer windows.
Southgate front, two storey, twelve windows. Ground floor is divided into six bays by pairs of rusticated pilasters topped with brackets and pediments. The five bays to the right each have a shop front. The sixth bay, to the left, has a round headed doorway and blocked window both with moulded surrounds wth keystones and impost band. Upper floor also six bays, divided by pairs of pilaster strips, with a continuous plain entablature and parapet surmounted by six paired stacks. Each bay has two margin light sashes, in moulded light headed surrounds with keystones and continuous cill and impost bands. Below six panels with roundels and above a band with six roundels.
Huddersfield Road front, three storey, ten windows. Ground floor is divided by single rusticated pilasters, with double pilasters at corners, tapped with brackets and pediments. Between six shop fronts. Upper floor divided 1.2.2.2.2.1. with dividing giant pilaster strips, and double pilaster strips at corners, supporting a plain entablature and parapet. Roof has four stone stacks. Both floors have round headed glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds with continuous cill and impost bands.
Listing NGR: SE1100220880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429512
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978)
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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