Town Hall

PONTEFRACT BRIDGE STREET SE 4521 NE (south-east side) 8/13 Town Hall GV II

Town hall, now local authority offices. Dated 1882. By Henry Perkin and George Bertram Bulmer of Leeds. Red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar sandstone dressings; Welsh slate roof. Ground floor and tall first floor, 1 x 3 bays. Jacobean style. Bridge Street elevation: 1 bay; plinth; leaved panelled doors below fanlight in round-arched portal with ashlar archivolt and corbels; datestone between string and cornice. Portal continues up as ashlar advanced and decorative surround to 3-light window with two transoms surmounted by Diocletian window below pediment. Steeply pitched hipped roof above dentil cornice. Recessed to right, linking bay to rear range of Old Town Hall (qv Market Place), with 2-light window, and pedimented oculus above, roof hipped to right. Left return to Baxtergate: ashlar surrounds to windows, 13 to ground-floor offices; two-storey above, with blind lunettes in 3 pedimented dormers, from the outer two of which rise ridge stacks. Interior: stone steps lead up from entrance hall to galleried assembly room on first floor, which has side benches and dado underneath gallery, decorative panels to gallery front and basked-arched ceiling with transverse ribs.

Listing NGR: SE4569121959