Town Hall
TOWN HALL, THE MARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267688
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, THE MARKET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267688
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, THE MARKET
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:
- TOWN HALL, THE MARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stroud
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85225 05229
Details
1. THE MARKET
5227 (East Side ) Town Hall SO 8505 5/53 II* GV 2. 1596. Hammerdressed rubble. Modern pitched roof. 2 storeys, and 2 attic storeys. Central gable with 1 mullioned attic window on each floor, both with hood moulds. 3 mullioned and transom windows on 1st floor, those at either side with hood moulds. Central window is an 8-light oriel crowned by a cornice and taken on a central pier, which is progressively corbelled out by means of elaborate scrolled brackets. Against this pier abut 2 Tuscan columns, on high plinths, each taking a full entablature and an elaborate scroll. Ground floor has 2 4-centred arches with moulded voussoirs, flanking 2 round arches with lions masks on keystones. 2 massive C19 buttresses to ground and lst floors. 2 flanking mid C19 staircase wings: ashlar: battlemented parapets: stringcourses with lions' heads masks: paired lancets with polychrome relieving arches: quatrefoil oculi above with polychrome voussoirs. Mid C19 extension to north: ashlar: 2 storeys: battlemented parapet: 3 ranges of mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. Before these C19 alterations were made the Town Hall was presumable free-standing; in which case it belongs to the same type as the town halls of Minchinhampton, Tetbury and Dursley; but owing to the sloping site, a variant on this theme. All the listed buildings in The Marrket form a group, together with Nos 53 to55 to 55] (consec) and The Bedford Arms, High Street.
Listing NGR: SO8522505229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 418016
- 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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