The Town Hall
THE TOWN HALL, ANGEL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384734
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWN HALL, ANGEL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384734
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOWN HALL, ANGEL 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 TOWN HALL, ANGEL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95402 12482
Details
TIVERTON
SS9512 ANGEL HILL, Tiverton
848-1/6/109 The Town Hall
05/12/85
GV II
Town hall. 1862-64 by H Lloyd of Bristol. Grey freestone with
sandstone dressings, marble columns and ornamental slate
roofs.
STYLE: Eclectic Free Renaissance.
PLAN: asymmetrical.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Grand, richly-detailed, asymmetrical
front elevation with a 2 storey canted entrance bay to the
right rising as a polygonal turret with a steep polygonal
slated roof.
A second, square turret at the extreme left is set back from
the entrance and has a plainer steep roof; between the turrets
the front elevation is stepped back in two bays with
semicircular corners with a similar bay to the right of the
entrance giving a bow to the Angel Hill facade. The entrance
bay is divided by two tiers of marble columns with Corinthian
capitals with a segmental pediment at first-floor level.
The round-headed doorway has a carved head keystone, the
windows are round-headed with keystones and eared lugged
architraves.
The turret has paired round-headed windows with keystones and
a central clock below a round-headed arch. The bays to left
and right of the entrance are heavily rusticated with
round-headed windows with keystones and eclectic detailing
including rusticated pilasters and a decorated parapet. The
left-hand turret has rusticated corner pilasters and blind
round-headed arches to the first and second floors. Both
turrets are crowned by small platforms with decorated iron
balustrades and weathervanes.
INTERIOR: considerable survival of original features including
the stair.
HISTORY: the architectural completion for the town hall
attracted 60 entries. The final cost of the building was
»8,000. (Cunningham). The town hall is on a prominent corner
site at the top of Angel Hill and adjacent to the Church of St
George (qv).
(Cunningham C: Victorian & Edwardian Town Halls: 1981-; The
Boulder: 1864-).
Listing NGR: SS9540212482
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485192
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cunningham, C, Victorian and Edwardian Town Halls, (1981)
The Builder in The Builder, (1864)
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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