HORNSEY TOWN HALL
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1263688
Date first listed: 16-Jan-1981
Statutory Address: HORNSEY TOWN HALL, BROADWAY N8
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Location
Statutory Address: HORNSEY TOWN HALL, BROADWAY N8
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Greater London Authority
District: Haringey (London Borough)
National Grid Reference: TQ 30204 88316
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History
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Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/10/2012
TQ 3088
33/290
5015
BROADWAY N8
(east side)
Hornsey Town Hall
II*
1935 by R H Uren. Forms, centrepiece of composition around small green,
flanked by Gas Board and Electricity Board showroom. Hand made brick of
pinkish colour with stone dressings; flat roofs, stone coped parapets.
Modern style combined with display of craftsmanship. Two storeys. L-
shaped front with 7 bays facing courtyard, 6 narrower bays on right inner
return with a set back attic floor (perhaps later); tall rectangular tower
at junction. Main block has long first floor windows with bronze bars and
guards and bronze balcony to 3 central windows. Below, a wide triple
entrance with rusticated brickwork is flanked by plain windows. Tower has
large door with carved stone surround below a copper-grilled window with
bronze hood. Blank walls, with raised brick strips, rise to top stage
where stone hoods crown 5 and 4 slit windows. At North end projects a
bowed, cantilevered first floor. Rear: round-cornered canopies to
entrances flanking the stair tower which has curved full-height window with
glazing bars; oversailing flat roof.
Interior decoration and furnishing all designed as part of the original
conception and much is still preserved including: floor surfaces; wall
cladding; columns; doors, light-fittings; imperial main stair. with
decorative openwork metal balustrade; and inlaid wood-panelled walls (with
clocks), cupboards, and bookcases to' Borough Engineer's Office, Room 108,
former Mayor's Parlour and Committee Room. Council Chamber retains
original seats and desks (set in half-round). Galleried theatre with
inlaid wood-panelling to walls.
R H Uren.was a RIBA Architecture Medal winner and winner of the Gold Medal
of the Worshipful Company of Tilers and Brickmakers. This was the first
town hall in Britain to be modelled on Dudock's seminal town hall at
Hilversum, and was an important influence on others built subsequently.
Listing NGR: TQ3020488316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 201523
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.
End of official listing