STOKE NEWINGTON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND SURROUNDING WALLS

STOKE NEWINGTON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND SURROUNDING WALLS, STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1253465
Date first listed:: 10-May-1995
List Entry Name:: STOKE NEWINGTON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND SURROUNDING WALLS
Statutory Address:: STOKE NEWINGTON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND SURROUNDING WALLS, STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1253465
Date first listed:: 10-May-1995
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Oct-1995
List Entry Name:: STOKE NEWINGTON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND SURROUNDING WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: STOKE NEWINGTON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND SURROUNDING WALLS, STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STOKE NEWINGTON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND SURROUNDING WALLS, STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hackney (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32962 86481

Details

TQ 3286 HACKNEY STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET (North side) 735-/11/10030 Stoke Newington Municipal Buildings and surrounding walls

GV II

Former Town Hall, now municipal offices, and assembly hall. 1935-7 by J Reginald Truelove for the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington. Long, handmade, buff bricks between Portland stone ground floor and cornice, with lavish stone dressings. Westmorland slate roof. Plan consists of council offices in segmental building, with square assembly hall to east and library offices beyond. Two storeys, with attic set back at rear.

The main elevation of the council offices a segmental curve through ninety degrees, fifteen bays in extent. A symmetrical composition with broad stone bands over the ground floor stonework and dentiled cornice, it has projecting end pavilions of stone and a broader centrepiece recessed behind giant round columns in antis - all with balconies, that to centre recessed between columns and set over entrance. Marble architraved doorcase, bronze double doors and a flagpole supported on a single volute mark this as the centrepiece of the main composition, though principal entrance now that more directly facing Stoke Newington Church Street with decorative balcony front. All windows of metal with margin lights in stone architrave surrounds, including those to seven-bay attic. Rear elevation is also symmetrical: nine windows wide in alternating stone architraves, that to centre with pediment and with end staircase windows. Projecting entrance to left with consciously austere surround, and single window above. Five-bay assembly hall has three-bay frontage with stone end pavilions set either side of four giant columns in antis. Double doors with much decorative ironwork tracery, set between columns, with balconies over. High stone pediment with unmoulded guttae. Three-bay links to either side connect the building with the former town hall and library offices, the latter with its own entrance and balcony over. The exterior is notable for retaining its wartime camouflage markings. The Stoke Newington Church Street frontage with high piers topped with original lights and overthrow, rear elevation has walls; all of these form an important part of the composition.

Interiors. The principal council chamber and committee rooms reached from original central entrance, via entrance lobby with marble terrazzo floor and imperial staircase of teak with balustrade of wrought iron and silvered bronze. Stair hall and vestibule to former council chamber with lunettes and pilasters and commemorative boards. The council chamber originally of double height with public balcony; now with false ceiling, the lower part is used as an office, but balcony and moulded ceiling with dome and Diocletian windows survive above, and the whole retains fine Australian walnut panelling with pilasters. Former mayor's parlour above ceremonial entrance, and beyond this the committee rooms, with retractable walls so they could be joined into one curved space, moulded ceilings, cornices and plasterwork. The Assembly Hall survives completely: rectangular in plan with narrow gallery to the south and proscenium arch to thenorth, the other walls lined with pilasters. Sprung dance floor of Canadian maple. The hall is reached via foyer through double doors with metal grilles, and with marble terrazzo floor set in a decorative pattern.

Included as a good example of an inter-war complex of town hall and assembly hall, with particularly good materials and fine detailing.

Source Architect and Building News, 8 October 1937, pp. 39-43.

Listing NGR: TQ3296286481

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'Architect and Building News' in 8 October, (1937), 39-43

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.