Borough Buildings and Borough Hall
BOROUGH BUILDINGS AND BOROUGH HALL, MIDDLEGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263357
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Borough Buildings and Borough Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BOROUGH BUILDINGS AND BOROUGH HALL, MIDDLEGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263357
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Borough Buildings and Borough Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOROUGH BUILDINGS AND BOROUGH HALL, MIDDLEGATE
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:
- BOROUGH BUILDINGS AND BOROUGH HALL, MIDDLEGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Headland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 52727 33770
Details
HARTLEPOOL MIDDLEGATE NZ 5233 (north side) Headland. 8/81 Borough Buildings and Borough Hall
- II
Municipal Buildings and former market hall, the latter now a dance hall; 1865, by C.J. Adams. Brick with stone and white brick dressings; hipped Welsh slate roofs. Italianate. 2 storeys, eleven bays, with 3-stage central tower having sprocketed pyramidal roof, square lantern, spire and metal compass/weather-vane finial. Central wide, round-headed opening in 2 planes, the inner one springing from corbels, now holding mid C20 timber panelling and doors. 2 round-headed sashed lancets to middle stage of tower, with plaque in spandrel, bearing civic arms and names of civic leaders. 2 tall blocked lancets to upper stage above remains of balcony on corbels. Eaves cornice on stepped brackets. Other bays have round-headed windows, those to ground floor having timber mullions, transoms and radiating glazing bars. Paired first-floor windows separated by round shafts with ornate capitals. Relieving arches above have incised geometric patterns in the tympana. Double 4-panelled doors to 9th bay under late C19 cast iron balcony. Continuous moulded sills, impost bands and hoodmoulds. Contemporary single-storey 3-bay extension to right and former market hall (converted to dance hall 1926) adjoining rear. Moulded and coved cornices and panelled ceilings to first-floor rooms of Municipal Buildings; and 6 original lock-up cells in rear (west) wing. Hall has Art Deco interior : quasi Ionic columns supporting continuous gallery on 3 sides, having panelled parapet ornamented with classical motifs. Colonnade above gallery has Egyptian-bell capitals. Guilloche moulding to flat proscenium arch.
Listing NGR: NZ5273233772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432561
- 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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