Old Town Hall
OLD TOWN HALL, UNION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291593
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TOWN HALL, UNION STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291593
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD TOWN HALL, UNION STREET
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:
- OLD TOWN HALL, UNION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91686 63938
Details
TORQUAY
SX9163 UNION STREET 885-1/17/289 Old Town Hall 10/01/75
GV II
Old Town Hall. 1851-2 to the designs of Mr Dixon, the town surveyor. Local grey Torquay limestone, brought to course, with rock-faced quoins and Bathstone dressings; main roofs concealed behind parapets, tiled hipped roof to tower; stacks with stone shafts. Italianate style. PLAN: On a wedge-shaped site between Abbey Road and Union Street with entrances both sides. 3-stage clock tower facing down Fleet Street. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Principal 3-bay elevation to Union Street plus one bay to tower to left. Stone eaves brackets to cornice with parapet. Moulded string to first floor; platband to second floor. Centre bay broken forward and pedimented. Segmental-headed doorways to each bay on the ground floor. 3 first-floor windows with stone architraves, pediments on consoles and balustrades below the sill, centre window tripartite. 3 first-floor windows with stone architraves and consoles. 2-storey block to left with balustrade with round-headed arcade. 1:3:1-bay rear (Abbey Road) elevation in similar but plainer style. Dramatic 3-stage Italianate clock tower with shallow hipped roof with moulded projecting eaves on stone brackets; string courses. One-light and paired round-headed windows with stone architraves; doorway on Abbey Road side; oculus on Fleet Street side; clock faces in stone frames. Blue tiled Abbey Road street sign with white letters fixed to building. INTERIOR: Partly disused. Rear section in use as restaurant; historic features either removed or concealed. Very prominent position and one of the earliest examples in Torquay of the use of the Italianate tower, used later on many of the larger 1860s and 1870s villas. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Cherry B: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.858).
Listing NGR: SX9168663938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390870
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 858
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 858
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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