CHISWICK TOWN HALL (FORMER)

CHISWICK TOWN HALL (FORMER), HEATHFIELD TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260615
Date first listed:: 11-May-1994
List Entry Name:: CHISWICK TOWN HALL (FORMER)
Statutory Address:: CHISWICK TOWN HALL (FORMER), HEATHFIELD TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260615
Date first listed:: 11-May-1994
List Entry Name:: CHISWICK TOWN HALL (FORMER)
Statutory Address 1:: CHISWICK TOWN HALL (FORMER), HEATHFIELD TERRACE

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.

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

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:: CHISWICK TOWN HALL (FORMER), HEATHFIELD TERRACE

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hounslow (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 20518 78335

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HEATHFIELD TERRACE TQ 2078 787-/10/10012 (south side) Chiswick Town Hall (former) GV II

Former Town Hall, now council offices. 1876 by W J Trehearne, extended to east and west in 1900-1 by Arthur Ramsden. Stock brick with Bath stone dressings, quoins, cornice and porte cochère. Slate roof. Original building a symmetrical composition of three bays with central porte cochère, leading through double-height entrance hall to assembly hall and supper room with council chamber over. Secondary staircase hall in later three-bay range to east (in identical style). Two storeys and (tiny) attics. Main range with round arched windows to first floor, square windows under cornice brackets to ground floor, all of them paired except for tripartite composition over panelled double entrance doors in round-arched stone surround. Porte cochère with grouped Corinthian columns set on square bases, round-arched openings with carved spandrels and stone balustrade. Deeply moulded modillion eaves cornice with balustraded parapet, pediments over main and secondary entrances. Side elevation to Sutton Court Road of 1900-1 a symmetrical tripartite composition with central entrance between four-bay ranges under pediments. The window pattern is reversed, with round arches on the ground floor and square windows on the first floor. Richly decorated interior. Double-height entrance hall with tiled dado, imperial staircase with iron balustrades. Oak panels (1911) commemorate Ramsden's extension. This and the corridors beyond have colourful terrazzo floors. Behind, large assembly hall, formerly the Devonshire Hall, of seven bays with round-arched arcades under keystones and heavy dentilled cornice, stage with console brackets forming proscenium, coved top-lit ceiling. Balcony with elaborate cast-iron balustrade. Side entrance in Sutton Court Road has double doors with coloured glass, also coloured glass in fanlight, leading to paybox for hall. On other side is the supper room or Hogarth Room, with smaller, lower stage with similar cornice bracket proscenium. Pilasters to walls, trabeated ceiling, mahogany double doors to side lobby. These lead to dark but richly decorated side lobby, with marble dado and fireplace, and bust of Hogarth. Coloured glass toplights. Staircase with fat marble balustrade ascends to council chamber. Entrance to this lined in lincrusta, with coloured glass toplights and in double doors. Council chamber simpler, a five-bay chamber whose one-bay balcony has elaborate, polished, carved wood front. Open timber truss rafter roof coloured glass in gables. Mayoral and committee rooms now used as offices, reached off corridors lined with succulent green tiles. Included as an unusually lavish example of a town hall, with a good array of decorated public spaces.

Listing NGR: TQ2051878335

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.