Town Hall
TOWN HALL, RABY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250394
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, RABY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250394
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, RABY 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:
- TOWN HALL, RABY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 50792 32652
Details
HARTLEPOOL RABY ROAD NZ 5032 (west side) 10/93 Town Hall
- II
Wrongly shown on O.S. plan as Hart Road. Municipal building, 1897 dated on plaque above door; by H.A. Cheers. Red engineering brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; Lakeland slate roof with copper dome. Long cruciform building with symmetrical gabled end to road. Gothic style with much carving. Main range 2 tall storeys, one wide bay between narrow octagonal battlemented turrets with small spires. Projecting battlemented porch whose gabled pilasters frame a multi-moulded 4-centred-arched entrance with carved spandrels. Wrought iron screen gates; panelled doors and traceried overlight. Large 5-light traceried window above. Pointed-arched tympanum carved with County Borough arms. Bands and strings, set closely in shaped gable with griffin finials. Battlemented aisles have canted angles below short, shaped spires with fancy copper finials. Pointed-arched entrances also canted. Small extruded chambers between aisles and hall, hall and porch. Steeply-pitched roof has square, louvred wood bellcote with ogee dome and finial. Returns show transept-like projections with paired gables; similar style. Plainer rear extension for educational purposes.
Listing NGR: NZ5079232652
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432717
- 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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