Civic Hall

SE 1422 NE BRIGHOUSE

-/6/4 BETHEL STREET (North side) Nos. 2, 4 & 6 Civic Hall

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the 1st sentence of the description shall be amended to read:-

'Includes Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, & 9 Bradford Road.'

SE 1422 NE BRIGHOUSE -/6/4 BRADFORD ROAD (West side) 2.12.83 Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, & 9

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See under: Nos.2, 4 & 6 Civic Hall BETHEL STREET.

BRIGHOUSE BETHEL STREET SE 1422 NE (north side) 6/4 Nos. 2, 4 & 6 (Civic Hall)

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Includes Nos. 3 and 5 Bradford Road. Originally the Town Hall, 1868 by Mallinson and Barber (Halifax), used as a theatre from 1880, a magistrates court from 1898 and a cinema from 1902 to 1959. Opened as a Civic Hall 1968. 1st floor hall with ground floor shops. Set at a splayed angle to front 2 streets. Hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Bethel Street facade of 3 storeys and 5 symmetrical bays. Ground floor has rusticated bands and 3 segmental arched window openings with joggled voussoirs and vermiculated keystone flanked by semi-circular arched doorways with moulded heads and projecting keystone. Band. 1st floor has 4 sash windows (some of which retain their original 12 panes) with architrave, elliptical arch with keystone, cornice the outer bays are surmounted by pediments over which are circular blind openings with 2-light mullioned windows between with plain surrounds. Band, cornice and blocking course with hipped roof and central stack. Right hand return wall fronting Bradford Road has 2 similar ground floor windows surviving in a 7-bay facade. 2 storeys. 1st floor has sash windows the outer of which retain their glazing of 12 panes set within a blind arcade with semi-circular arches with hoodmould and keystone. Outer bays have shell motif within arch. Between each bay are circles. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse, (Brighouse 1978), p.37.

Listing NGR: SE1465822831