BOROUGH BUILDINGS AND BOROUGH HALL

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:: 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

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:: BOROUGH BUILDINGS AND BOROUGH HALL, MIDDLEGATE

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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

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Legacy System number:: 432561
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.