JUBILEE HALL KINGS HALL TOWN HALL

JUBILEE HALL, GLEBE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297959
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1972
List Entry Name:: JUBILEE HALL KINGS HALL TOWN HALL
Statutory Address:: JUBILEE HALL, GLEBE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297959
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: JUBILEE HALL KINGS HALL TOWN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: JUBILEE HALL, GLEBE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: KINGS HALL, GLEBE STREET
Statutory Address 3:: TOWN HALL, GLEBE STREET

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:: JUBILEE HALL, GLEBE STREET
Statutory Address:: KINGS HALL, GLEBE STREET
Statutory Address:: TOWN HALL, GLEBE STREET

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

District:: City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 87886 45289

Details

STOKE ON TRENT

SJ8645 GLEBE STREET 613-1/9/130 (North West side) 19/04/72 Town Hall, Jubilee Hall and Kings Hall (Formerly Listed as: GLEBE STREET Town Hall)

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Town Hall. Central block of 1834, north wing added in 1842, south wing some time after 1850. Central block by Henry Ward. Ashlar faced, flat-roofed. 2-storeyed, 5 bays, the outer and central sections of 3 & 5 bays, advanced. Central section forms entrance portico with 3 archways to ground floor beneath Ionic columns carrying deep entablature and elevated pediment. Windows with shouldered architraves set behind these columns. Outer bays also pedimented, with Ionic pilasters to first floor, segmentally-arched windows below. These sections are linked by flanking blocks of 5 bays, with segmentally-arched windows. Rusticated basement storey throughout, with ashlar above. Balustrade runs along front, over cellar area. Return elevation to Kingsway of 3 bays with heavy broken entablature to central doorway which has architrave with Ionic shafts banded with rusticated blocks. One bay recessed beyond contains archway to rear yard, with heavy volute and swags over, and open peristyle with Ionic columns above. Adjoining to the SW, Kings Hall and Jubilee Hall were added in 1911, by T.Wallis and J.A.Bowden. 2 storeys, 9 principal bays, the central 3 contained beneath a pediment, and advanced slightly. Central door in heavy surround beneath Ionic columns flanked by full-height archways. Outer doorways enriched with heavy moulded architrave and pediment. Detailing throughout is Mannerist in inspiration: exaggerated detailing to doorways with heavy volutes and swags, concave moulding around windows, broken pediments. Long range links this entrance block with the Town Hall, with oculi over doorways. (The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Pugh R B: Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-).

Listing NGR: SJ8788645289

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Legacy System number:: 384408
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1963)

Legal

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