Town Hall

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WATH UPON DEARNE CHURCH STREET (north side) Town Hall

GV II

House later used as Town Hall and now civic offices. Built 1770 (Fleming and Hird), appears early C19 with parapet probably late C19. Cement-rendered, roof not visible. Rectangular double-depth plan. 2 storeys, cellars. Symmetrical 5-bay front; central 3 bays break forward. Plinth, band-rusticated ground floor. Central, single-storey, stone porch: C20 panelled door with fanlight flanked by Ionic columns; pulvinated frieze, modillioned cornice and blocking course. Flanking bays have unequal 20-pane sashes. Band to 1st floor beneath 5 windows all with projecting sills, sashes with glazing bars and consoled cornices. Plain ashlar frieze, cornice. Added ashlar parapet, with stylised motif in recessed panels. Rear: 4 bays, central 2 bays break forward. Outer bays have single-storey canted bays with pierced balustrades. Modillioned cornice.

Interior: rooms mostly subdivided. Entrance hall: 2 Ionic columns, stone staircase to right with cast-iron balustrade. Niche at stair landing; ornate stair-well ceiling with acanthus motif to central feature. C20 additions to right return not of special interest.

A. Fleming and S. Hird, Wath upon Dearne As It Was, 1982, plate 10.

Listing NGR: SE4330300884