THE GUILDHALL AND TOWN HALL WITH ATTACHED COACH HOUSE

THE GUILDHALL AND TOWN HALL WITH ATTACHED COACH HOUSE, WESTERN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297841
Date first listed:: 10-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:: THE GUILDHALL AND TOWN HALL WITH ATTACHED COACH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE GUILDHALL AND TOWN HALL WITH ATTACHED COACH HOUSE, WESTERN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297841
Date first listed:: 10-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:: THE GUILDHALL AND TOWN HALL WITH ATTACHED COACH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE GUILDHALL AND TOWN HALL WITH ATTACHED COACH HOUSE, WESTERN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: THE GUILDHALL AND TOWN HALL WITH ATTACHED COACH HOUSE, WESTERN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Launceston
National Grid Reference:: SX 33034 84469

Details

LAUNCESTON

SX32843384 WESTERN ROAD 660-1/4/191 (South East side) 10/12/92 The Guildhall and Town Hall with attached coach house

GV II

Guildhall and Town Hall. 1881 and 1887. Town Hall by Otho B Peter of Launceston and G Hine of Plymouth. Polychrome mostly slatestone rubble walls with granite and polyphant stone dressings; dry slate roofs with coped gable ends; crested clay ridge tiles; moulded stacks; tower with pyramidal roof with weather-vane and embattled parapet with bracketed cornice; original cast-iron rainwater-heads and downpipes. Large irregular plan with central front tower between small hall on the left and large hall on the right. Mixed Gothic Revival style. 3-stage tower, otherwise tall single-storey elevations to Western Road. Symmetrical 3-window gabled front on the left with 4-centred arched windows each with 3 stepped pointed-arched lights and double transoms. Tower flanked by 2 low 2-light bays with round-arched lights; 3 similar but taller louvred lights to upper stage of tower, strings dividing stages; clock and niche with piper to 2nd stage and moulded 4-centred arched doorway approached by flight of granite steps. Tall symmetrical gable end of large hall on right with 3 stepped ventilators to gable over very large 7-light 4-centred arched windows with frieze of quatrefoils over lower lights and 2 transoms above; sill string linked to flanking panelled buttresses, 4-centred arched doorway set back on right. Rear has 2-window range with 3-light transomed windows, those to 1st floor breaking eaves and under hipped roofs. Tower has embattled round stair turret with conical slate roof and finial; clockface to tall bell-stage opening. 3-bay right-hand return has 3-light windows with 4 centred arched lights; porch to 2nd bay with Tudor arched doorway. Small linking wing at rear to coach house on the right with 3-light gable window with 4-centred arched lights over large carriage doorway with C20 doors. INTERIOR: Guildhall has arch-braced roof springing from corbels, and diagonal ceiling boards; chimney-piece dated 1881 with moulded cornice; corner shafts to principal window, high dado panelling; large town hall with similar roof structure except with tie rods and moulded cornice. Other features include some geometric polychrome tiled floors and pointed-arched doorways to corridors and square hoods to hall doorways. (Kelly's Directories: Directory of Cornwall: 1902-: P.169).

Listing NGR: SX3303384469

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Kellys Directory' in Cornwall, (1902), 169

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.