Town Hall
TOWN HALL, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371873
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371873
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET SQUARE
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 SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Higham Ferrers
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 96038 68451
Details
HIGHAM FERRERS MARKET SQUARE SP9668SW (East side) 20/61 Town Hall 23/09/50 GV II
Town hall. 1809. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facade and slate roof. Rectangular plan with ancillary offices at ground floor and council chamber at first floor. Symmetrical main fron: 3-window range. Centre bay breaks forward slightly with pediment over. Central, first floor, Venetian style sash window with glazing bars and gauged stone heads with keyblocks. Two 6-panel doors to far left and right are under similar heads and have fanlights with glazing bars. Raised string course between floors. Shallow gabled roof behind parapet wall. Pediment has ball finial and oval plaque with Borough insignia. Elevations to left and right each of 2-window range to ground and first floor with some sash windows with glazing bars under wood lintels, and some blank openings. Rear elevation of 2-window range, at first floor, of sash windows, and 3-window range of C20 casements at ground floor. Interior: council chamber ceiling has central plaster moulding and branch chandelier. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.259).
Listing NGR: SP9603868451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232361
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 259
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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