Town Hall Arts Centre
TOWN HALL ARTS CENTRE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375521
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall Arts Centre
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL ARTS CENTRE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375521
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall Arts Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL ARTS CENTRE, HIGH STREET
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 ARTS CENTRE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haverhill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67337 45299
Details
HAVERHILL
TL6745 HIGH STREET 816-1/5/20 (South West side) 09/05/73 Town Hall Arts Centre (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (South West side) Town Hall)
GV II
Public hall. 1883 by Edward Sharman of Wellingborough, donation of the Gurteen family. Red brick with stone and glazed tile dressings and slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2-storey plus attic. 3-bay gabled front to street with projecting full-height central porch. On ground floor, porch has arched openings on three sides: on first floor, oriel window enriched with cast-iron decorative latticing to upper lights: at attic level, geometric traceried 3-light window. On each side of porch, both bays have paired lancets on ground and first floors, the latter with a common shouldered hood. Decorative cast-iron latticing recurs. First-floor band of glazed tiles; cement rendered second-floor band. Corbelled and dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped roof with apex gablets pierced by octofoil roundels. Returns: 7-window ranges with 2-light casements on both floors. INTERIOR: closed-string staircase right of porch with turned balusters and panelled string. Entire first floor occupied by Council Chamber fitted with dado panelling: barrel roof on arched braces describing semicircular profile and braced by 4 tiers of purlins. (Crouch P: Haverhill Town Trail: Haverhill: 1981-).
Listing NGR: TL6733745299
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466419
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crouch, P, Haverhill Town Trail, (1981)
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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