Town Hall is a Grade I listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1949. A Georgian Town hall. 22 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- cold-postern-hazel
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1949
- Type
- Town hall
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Town Hall, Sankey Street, WA1 1UH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 602 882
- Coordinates
- 53.38974, -2.59963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, built in 1750 by Gibbs, was formerly known as Bank Hall and served as the seat of the Patten family. It is considered by Pevsner to be the finest house of its date in South Lancashire. This Palladian-style building stands three storeys tall and features rusticated stone facing over red brick, a hipped slate roof, a brick parapet, and a stone modillioned cornice. The main front has a slight central projection adorned with four Corinthian columns, a frieze, and a pediment displaying a coat of arms. There are nine sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded architraves; the first floor features a mix of segmental and pointed pediments, except for the three central windows between the columns, which are arched. The centre of the first floor has double doors accessed by a flight of stone steps with iron railings and four lamps. Curved flanking walls extend from the main house to the entrances of the side courts. The garden front is similar but lacks columns.
Inside, there are two stone staircases with iron balustrades and decorative plasterwork. There are also detached service blocks on either side, each with a long rectangular plan that is similar but not identical in detail. These blocks are two storeys high, with a three-storeyed centre finished with a pediment; the centre is rusticated stone while the side wings are brick, comprising a total of 13 bays.
In front of the building, the east and west drives are lined with five iron standard lamps featuring round lanterns. The entrance gateway is impressive, consisting of four square hollow iron piers with patterned tracery, six elaborately ornamented iron gates standing about 20 feet high, topped with four angels on the piers. A round arch over the centre supports the coat of arms, and this entrance was exhibited at the London Exhibition of 1862. The Town Hall, along with the Borough Treasurer's Office, Bank House, and the eastern and western outbuildings, as well as the entrance gates, piers, and lamps, form a cohesive group with additional nearby properties.
Local climate
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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 22 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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