Town Hall
TOWN HALL, 86, WATLING STREET EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371643
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, 86, WATLING STREET EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371643
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, 86, WATLING STREET EAST
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, 86, WATLING STREET EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Towcester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 69356 48651
Details
TOWCESTER WATLING STREET EAST SP6948 13/158 No.86 (Town Hall) 19/08/76
GV II
Former Town Hall and corn exchange. 1865 by T.H. Vernon. Limestone ashlar, banded with ironstone, hipped Welsh slate roof with ornamental ridge tiles and wrought iron finials. Italianate style. 2 storeys and attic. 3-window range. Complex plan. Central doorway with round-arched head, and keyblock on foliated capitals with ears of wheat, flanked by pilasters with similar capitals supporting console brackets bearing deep hood. Pair of 2-light windows to ground floor with similar heads and capitals to middle piers, outer capitals with ivy leafs; timber tracery. Smaller round-arched windows to first floor of 2 lights to centre, 3 lights to left and right with pilasters outermost, red sandstone columns innermost, stiff-leaf capitals and sash windows. Chamfered plinth, first floor cornice, modiliioned eaves cornice, balustraded parapet and blank-arcaded stone stacks to angles. Centre and ends project slightly, with pediment to centre. Clock tower above with copper-clad belfry. 2-storey wing to rear right of white brick in Flemish bond with segmental-arched sash windows and side door with segmental-arched head with keyblock flanked by pilasters supporting pediment. Bay with door is pedimented. Interior: fine hall with composite pilasters, entablature with dentil cornice, coved arcaded vault to two sides with ornamental glazing to round windows. South end wall has tall round-arched panel with paterae to archivolt;2 small arches to north wall. Foundation stone laid by the Earl of Pomfret, September 8th, 1865. The builder was J. Wheeler. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.434).
Listing NGR: SP6935648651
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235179
- 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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