Description

1. 839 HIGH STREET (North Side) No 196 (The Old Town Hall) SP 9907 NW 1/45 8,11.72. II

2. 1859. 2-storey building in Gothic style, with irregular fenestration. Brick with diamond patterns, stone dressings Tiled roof of fairly high pitch with 2 gables facing street and, at left, an octagonal turret with spire, half projecting as a 1st floor oriel Tell chimney at left with stone quoins and cornice. Stone eaves cornice, broken by oriel but running across central gable. Oriel has a tall, square headed central light with curvilinear tracery in upper part; and 2 shorter ogee-headed, cusped side lights, In central bay three adjoining 2-light windows with cusped heads under Tudor arches with continuous hood-moulds In right bay an oriel window of three lights with curvilinear tracery, pointed arch and nodding ogee hood mould. Moulded string at lst floor broken forward around the oriels and rising to square arch with shield in centre over main doorway. On ground floor three large pointed arched entrances, double chamfered with hoodmoulds, the 1st and 3rd.divided by round shafts with foliated caps. The first accommodates the base of the left oriel, the second holds large double doors, the third, has central oculus with mouchettes. At extreme right a smaller entrance with stilted, pointed arch and hoodmould. Round clock on decorative iron bracket projects from central gable.

Listing NGR: SP9915007868

External Links

• The Old Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26347138

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)