Widnes Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Halton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Town hall. 5 related planning applications.
Widnes Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- vast-timber-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood MP: Derek Twigg (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Widnes Town Hall, Victoria Square, WA8 7SP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 514 852
- Coordinates
- 53.36195, -2.73166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Widnes Town Hall, built in 1885 by F & G Holme, is a town hall constructed from brickwork with terra cotta dressings and a slate roof. The building features a symmetrical facade with nine windows across two storeys. The gable and central entrance bays, which have large windows, are set forward from the main structure. The front entrance is adorned with an ornate segmental pediment supported by console blocks and twin pilasters, and above this, at the first floor level, there are Griffins holding shields. Decorative tile bands run every three courses up to the first floor string course, with aprons beneath the first floor windows and swags and faces on the keystones of the second floor windows. All the windows are sash style. The building has a modillion eaves cornice, and above this, there is a parapet that is partly balustraded and partly solid brickwork. The roof features a reeded tile ridge, and the chimneys have pilaster strips. The interior is not of special interest.
Local climate
Widnes Town Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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