The Town Hall
THE TOWN HALL, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307454
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWN HALL, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307454
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOWN HALL, THE SQUARE
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:
- THE TOWN HALL, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wiveliscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST0807727797
Details
ST0827 WIVELISCOMBE CP THE SQUARE (West side)
8/89 The Town Hall
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GV II
Town Hall, now shops. 1841-2, and mid C20 shopfronts. Architect Richard Carver.
Brick with Welsh slate roofs. Central block 2-storeys and 3-bays, extending back
the depth of the site, with steeply pitched gable roof. Deep wooden eaves form a
pediment at the gable end, tympanum contains a clock, with a brick and wood
bell-cote with bell above. Round headed sash windows with glazing bars and a
string course which is continued around the windows as a hood mould. This
fenestration and string course returned on side fronts. Flanking single storey
wings with hipped roofs behind brick parapets containing C20 shopfronts, except
for extreme left 3:1 bays where original arcades of now painted brick have been
filled with plate glass.
Listing NGR: ST0807727797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270163
- 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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