The Guildhall and Sessions Hall
THE GUILDHALL AND SESSIONS HALL, ST PETER'S HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360282
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall and Sessions Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILDHALL AND SESSIONS HALL, ST PETER'S HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360282
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall and Sessions Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GUILDHALL AND SESSIONS HALL, ST PETER'S HILL
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 GUILDHALL AND SESSIONS HALL, ST PETER'S HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- South Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Grantham
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 91539 35672
Details
In the entry for: ST. PETER'S HILL 1. 1146 Guildhall SK 9135 NE 9/294 II
The address shall be amended to read: ST. PETER'S HILL The Guildhall and Sessions Hall
The following shall be added to the description:-
To the rear a Sessions Hall, of red brick with similar stone arched windows. The interior of this Hall has some of its original fittings including an ornate panelled wooden balustrade to the public gallery, and a canopy over the judges'seat, plus another ornate wooden balustrade, and its original roof.
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ST. PETER'S HILL 1. 1146 Guildhall SK 9135 NE 9/294 II 2. William Watkins, 1867-9. Symmetrical building in read brick with ashlar dressings. High-pitched slate roof in modified French style. Main section of two storeys. Stone moulded cornice with brackets. Parapet in brick with stone panels with circular openings. Most windows and stone arches with joined carved heads, half-column mullions with carved capitals. Centre projects with similar arches to entrance. Tall clock lantern with wrought iron coronet. Flanking wings of two storeys, lower, with hipped roofs. Four paired similar windows.
Listing NGR: SK9153935672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 193008
- 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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