Old Poplar Town Hall and Council Offices
OLD POPLAR TOWN HALL AND COUNCIL OFFICES, 117, POPLAR HIGH STREET E14
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260135
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Old Poplar Town Hall and Council Offices
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POPLAR TOWN HALL AND COUNCIL OFFICES, 117, POPLAR HIGH STREET E14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260135
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Old Poplar Town Hall and Council Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POPLAR TOWN HALL AND COUNCIL OFFICES, 117, POPLAR HIGH STREET E14
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:
- OLD POPLAR TOWN HALL AND COUNCIL OFFICES, 117, POPLAR HIGH STREET E14
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 37801 80782
Details
In the entry for: HIGH STREET, POPLAR E14 1. 4431 No 117 (Old Poplar Town Hall, Council Offices) TQ 3780 25/902
II
The address shall be amended to read "Poplar High Street, E14".
------------------------------------ These buildings were added to the list by the 16th amendment dated 1st July 1983.
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HIGH STREET, POPLAR E14 1. 4431 No 117 (Old Poplar TQ 3780 25/902 Town Hall, Council Offices) II. 2. Dated 1870, built on a corner site with octagonal tower capped by finialed copper dome holding the corner. Stock brick with Portland stone dressings and some polychromy in a High Victorian free Gothic with some Venetian detailing. Two storey wings abutt the corner tower, that to north along Woodstock Terrace taller and of more Venetian inspiration with coupled and quadrupled groups of tall narrow windows divided by granite foliate copped shafts, to the piano mobile and with deep stone bracketed eaves cornice to steep hipped slate roof. The west wing has a steep gable end slate roof with gabled dormers and stone coped gables. The corner tower has more ornate detailing with bracket cornice and pierced work parapet over first floor; dog toothed eaves cornice to dome and with gablets to alternate narrower faces. Shafted portal with carved archivolt and spandrels. Vermiculated dwarf walls support cast iron area railings terminating in pedestals, those flanking doorway surmounted by Gothic shaft cast iron lamp standards.
Listing NGR: TQ3780180782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441621
- 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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