The Old Town Hall and 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1992. Town hall. 1 related planning application.
The Old Town Hall and 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings
- WRENN ID
- south-lintel-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1992
- Type
- Town hall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Town Hall and numbers 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings are a late 19th-century building, constructed in 1888. Designed by C.F.L. Horsfall, they were originally a Town Hall and are now used as a club hall and shops. The building is built of dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate hipped roofs, featuring various stacks. It is designed in an Italianate style.
The main front, facing the entrance, is two stories high with three windows. A central, projecting portico is accessed by a flight of steps with rusticated side walls and piers topped with iron finials. Corinthian pilasters support a deep entablature and a decorated pediment. The portico contains two round-arched doorways with moulded surrounds, shafts, and keystones. A balcony with balustrade fronts a large Venetian window above. Flanking this are round-headed windows on each floor, featuring margin light sashes in moulded surrounds with keystones. Single rusticated pilasters are present at each corner on the ground floor, with pairs of Doric pilasters above, supporting a continuous entablature and decorated parapet with corner piers supporting urns. Above is a square cupola with paired corner pilasters and central clock faces, surmounted by a dome with a weather vane and corner urns. Pyramidal roofs rise on either side, featuring iron crowns and small circular dormer windows.
The south-facing front is two stories high with twelve windows. The ground floor is divided into six bays by pairs of rusticated pilasters topped with brackets and pediments. Five bays are occupied by shop fronts. The sixth bay features a round-headed doorway and blocked window, both with moulded surrounds, keystones, and an impost band. The upper floor similarly has six bays, divided by pilaster strips, with a plain continuous entablature and parapet topped by six paired stacks. Each bay on the upper floor contains two margin light sashes in moulded light-headed surrounds with keystones and continuous cill and impost bands. There is a band of roundels below and another band of roundels above.
The front facing Huddersfield Road is three stories high with ten windows. The ground floor is divided by single rusticated pilasters, with double pilasters at the corners, topped with brackets and pediments. Six shop fronts occupy the bays. The upper floors are divided into a pattern of bays with giant and double pilaster strips, supporting a plain entablature and parapet. The roof is punctuated by four stone stacks. Both upper floors feature round-headed glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds, continuous cill and impost bands.
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