Town Hall
TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321662
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321662
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 94898 33126
Details
SP 9433-9533 WOBURN MARKET PLACE 8/138 Town Hall GV II Town Hall, partly converted to offices. Plaque to S elevation "Built by John VI Duke of Bedford 1830. Restored by Hastings IX Duke of Bedford 1884. Enlarged by Herbrand XI Duke of Bedford 1912." Original 1830 design by Edward Blore, in loosely Jacobethan style. Mottled red brick with ashlar dressings. Clay tile roof. 2 storeyed gabled rectangualar block with square turret to NE angle. E gable end: central slightly projecting bay with diagonal buttresses to angle, giving appearance of aisled building. 4-centred arched doorway approached by flight of steps. Double doors, upper panels with pointed arches. Above doorway is canted oriel window with carved Bedford crest to centre. Mullioned windows with cusped lights. Buttresses are surmounted by gargoyles and heavy panelled finials. Turret: 3 stages, divided by string courses. Top stage has 3-centred-arched louvred lights to each side. Lower stages have some narrower lights with cast iron diamond glazing bars. Moulded brick eaves cornice with lombard frieze. Leaded pyramidal roof with concave sides. Side elevations: ground floor reworked using lighter brick. Ground floor originally open arches with metal grilles (Beds. Magazine Vol.II, pp 87- 88). Large 3-light mullion and transom windows separated by 2-stage buttresses. First floor has 3-centred arched single lights with cast iron diamond glazing bars. These rise slightly above eaves level and are under narrow gablets with stone coping and finials. S elevation has 2 integral chimney stacks with octagonal moulded brick shafts. W gable end: 2 integral chimneys similar to S side. Large mullion and transom window to first floor. Ground floor has low 1912 extension with mullioned windows, 3-centred arched doorway and stone coped parapet.
Listing NGR: SP9489833126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38241
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bedfordshire Magazine in Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol. 2, (1975), 87-88
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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