Town Hall
TOWN HALL, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316536
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, BROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316536
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, BROAD 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:
- TOWN HALL, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eye
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 14512 73886
Details
EYE
TM1473 BROAD STREET 585-1/7/20 (West side) 20/10/71 Town Hall
II*
Town hall. 1857 by EB Lamb. Banded red and gault brick with flint detailing of diamond and half-diamond lozenges arranged randomly over entire wall surface. Slate and lead roofs. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. West face with 5 tall round-headed casements with glazing bars. Moulded brick and York stone parapet. Elevated hipped roof. North and south returns both with one similar casement and a pediment over parapet. East side with recessed entrance developing into a two-stage tower with clock faces to cardinal points and an open lantern on a domed lead roof. INTERIOR: assembly room at ground floor under roof of arched braces and king post trusses. Stone staircase leads to council chamber at first floor: raised rectangular roof light. The Town Hall is a very finely detailed eccentric design which brilliantly takes advantage of the irregular site and dominates the centre of Eye.
Listing NGR: TM1451273886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468250
- 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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