Town Hall
TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1368477
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1368477
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1988
- 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.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wallingford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60716 89359
Details
SU6089SE
11/113
09/12/49
WALLINGFORD
MARKET PLACE
(South side)
Wallingford
Town Hall
(Formerly listed as Town Hall or Guildhall)
GV
I
Town hall. c. 1670, repaired 1822, repaired and altered 1887, addition of c. 1933.
Stone Doric columns to ground floor, with some rendered brick infill to rear.
Lined render on timber framing to first floor; old plain-tile hipped roof, brick
ridge stack to rear. 2-storey and attic; 5-window range with main front to end
facing Market Place. Open columned ground floor. Venetian window with glazing
bars and painted columned surround and balcony with wrought iron balustrade to
first floor centre. Quoins to corners of building. Cornice to eaves. Gabled
dormer having Venetian window with glazing bars. Left return to St. Mary's s
Street: 3 bays to ground floor right infilled, with 12-pane unhorned sashes with
painted architrave surrounds. 12-pane unhorned sashes with painted architrave
surrounds and cornices to first floor. 2 hipped dormers. Interior: stone winder
stair to cellar. Chamfered spine beam with ogee end stops to cellar. Council
chamber to first floor: fielded panelling to dado. Square Doric half-columns
with dentil cornice supporting tie beams of roof, 8-panel doors to each side of
dias with architrave surrounds and pediments. Committee room: fielded panelling
With dentil cornice to dado. C18 stone fireplace with C19 cast-iron grate.
Moulded plaster panels to ceiling. Curved principal roof construction visible to
attic. Addition of c.1933 of external staircase and 2-bays in same style to
right return of St, Martin's Street. History: Council Chamber remodelled by
removal of ceiling to form curved ceiling, in 1887, to celebrate Queen
Victoria's Jubilee.
(Buildings of England: Berkshire, I966, p.249; V.C.H, Berkshire, Vol,111, 1923,
p,519).
Listing NGR: SU6071689359
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249276
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 249
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 519
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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