Town Hall
TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259171
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259171
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- High Peak (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 05832 73328
Details
BUXTON
SK0573SE MARKET PLACE 616-1/4/61 (North side) Town Hall
II
Town hall. 1887-8, altered C20. Designed by W Pollard of Manchester. Coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings and steeply pitched Welsh slate roofs with ornamental cast-iron railing. PLAN: T-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, with attic and basement. North 5 window symmetrical front, articulated with rusticated pilasters, moulded entablature and paired Tuscan pilasters above with cornice, entablature and plain coped parapet. Slightly projecting central frontispiece has moulded round arched entrance with double panel doors and curved keystone and ornate carved spandrels, flanked by broad rusticated pilasters with panels. Central steps have flanking walls topped with 4 ornate iron lamps. Either side 2-light sashes with moulded ashlar surrounds and beyond single tripartite sashes in similar surrounds. Above central Venetian window flanked by pairs of Corinthian columns supporting pediment, topped by panelled section with parapet, urns and tall pyramidal roof with iron railings. Either side pairs of round headed sashes in moulded surrounds with pilasters and keystones, beyond single Venetian windows in similar surrounds, above small gables with date panels topped with pediments. South 5-window symmetrical front, articulated with banded pilasters, moulded entablature, pairs of pilasters with cornice and coped parapet. Central entrance with double panel doors and sidelights plus carved round headed centre. Either side 2 round headed openings with moulded arches and keystones, those to left with roller shutters and those to right with 3-light C20 windows. Above central Venetian window with moulded ashlar surround, flanked by single sashes in similar surrounds, flanked by Venetian windows. Central tower has raised attic with 3 circular windows and a pediment. Above square tower with clock under segmental pediment to each face, topped with octagonal cupola of 8 Corinthian columns and a bell canted dome with finial. End bays have tall pavilion roofs with cast-iron railings. Side facades have end pavilions reflecting main fronts, with between, single storey ground floor with paired windows and set back above round headed first-floor windows with
buttresses between to former ballroom. INTERIOR: altered and sub-divided C20. 1st floor ball room now offices. Originally the building had 3 staircases down to cellars which were barrel vaulted and contained market stalls. 2 opposing staircases survive that lead up from the central corridor; they are of cast-iron with wooden rails. Some wood panelling, panelled doors and mosaic flooring survives. Also some contemporary furnishings. Clock in tower given by Duke of Devonshire's tenants (1889) in memory of the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish, Dublin 1882. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 113).
Listing NGR: SK0583273328
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463185
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1953), 113
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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