Town Hall
TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274059
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06323/08
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274059
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wincanton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7129528610
Details
ST7128
8/174
WINCANTON CP
MARKET PLACE (South side)
Town Hall
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GV II
Town Hall, now Wincanton Day Centre. 1878. By W. J. Willcox of Bath. Red brick with ashlar stone dressings; hipped plain clay tile roof. A C19 parody of Nathaniel Ireson. East facade of 2 storeys, 3 bays, with clock tower on North East corner. Plinth and rusticated stone base, band course, console bracketted cornice; to bay 1 two small semi-circular openings with doorways and fanlights; to bays 2 and 3 wider arched openings with Gibbsian surrounds and triple keystones; above plain sash windows with rusticated architraves and quintruple keystones.
Tower to match, with dentilled string course over ground floor doorway, narrow sash window with architrave and triple keystone above, then the tower plinth with panel stating 'rebuilt anno domini 1878', with simple window under a clockface; steep tiled roof and weathervane. Short North return of tower to match.
The first town hall wrecked by a mob in 1767 and replaced in 1769 (the year Nathaniel Ireson died); this second was destroyed by fire in 1877, and in this rebuilding the road was widened by 2.5 metres; an open market in the undercroft was enclosed in 1893, after a Market Hall had been built.
Of great visual importance in heart of town. (Sweetman G, History of Wincanton, c1904).
Listing NGR: ST7129528610
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416348
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sweetman, G, History of Wincanton, (1903)
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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