District Council Office

The former Hebden Royd Council offices, built in 1897, are constructed of dressed stone with a slate roof and rise to 2½ storeys. The building is divided into three linear sections. The first section features a porch with a stilted arch, a dropped keystone, and a carved impost, with a parapet that displays the date of construction. To the left, there are mullioned windows with transoms on the first floor. The second section, which projects slightly, boasts an impressive canted oriel window that has an ogee transom, a swan-neck pediment, and a triangular gable with a circular window. The third section contains a basket-arched entry with joggled voussoirs that leads to the former fire station. The first floor also has mullioned windows with transoms, and there is a similar gable above that leads to the attic. Semi-octagonal buttresses with finials separate each division. The left-hand return wall features an extruded stack with a triangular pediment set within a shaped gable, flanked by mullioned windows and finialed buttresses. There is another elaborately dressed stack at the ridge. Inside, the first-floor council chamber retains its original fittings, including a horse-shoe table, a canopied chairman's chair, panelled walls, and a coved plaster ceiling. The building is a prominent feature in the town and is illustrated in the Calder Civic Trust's Hebden Bridge Trail.