Bognor Regis Town Hall
BOGNOR REGIS TOWN HALL, CLARENCE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350337
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Bognor Regis Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BOGNOR REGIS TOWN HALL, CLARENCE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350337
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Bognor Regis Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOGNOR REGIS TOWN HALL, CLARENCE ROAD
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:
- BOGNOR REGIS TOWN HALL, CLARENCE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Arun (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bognor Regis
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 93827 99026
Details
BOGNOR REGIS
745/0/10041 CLARENCE ROAD
24-JAN-03 Bognor Regis Town Hall
II
Town hall. Designed in 1929 by Charles Cowles-Voysey in neo-Georgian style; detailing by John Bower. Builder H W Seymour. Symmetrical splayed design with central spur to rear in yellow Flemish bond brickwork with brown brick and stone dressings and hipped pantiled roof with elaborate central wooden clock faceand cupola with copper dome. Three storeys; nine windows to front, two to sides, thirteen to rear.
EXTERIOR: One of the principal features is the central wooden clock tower which has a clock face with curved pediment over, four Roman Doric columns, copper dome and finial. North or entrance front has 16-pane sashes to second floor with moulded stone band below. Ground and first floor windows are 20-pane sashes with horns. Central first floor French windows with cornice and brackets on shell stops opening out on to balcony above three bay portico with square piers, stone capitals and frieze. Original double doors with four vertical panels each. Foundation stones on each side of door. Splayed side elevations have two 16-pane sashes to second floor, French windows to first floor opening on to balcony with cement balustrading on brackets and 20-pane window to ground floor. South front has similar treatment of windows and cornices but there is a central projection of two storeys three windows containing the Council Chamber on first floor, a tall chimney and one storey section at the end. Small late C20 flat-roofed extension to east.
INTERIOR: Entrance hall has central Imperial staircase for the use of council members with cast iron balustrading with scrollwork and column newel, coffered ceiling and pilasters. First floor Council Chamber has oak panelling, two oak piers and two oak double doors with circular glazed apertures. Sides have two staircases with plainer cast iron balustrading for the use of council officers.
Included as a well-planned and well-detailed example of a small town hall of the inter-war period, by the leading exponent of the genre.
Pevsner /Nairn "Buildings of England: Sussex" p108.
Information from the late John Brandon-Jones.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490147
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 108
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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