The Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1970. Town hall. 7 related planning applications.
The Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- final-keep-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1970
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- The Town Hall, Market Place, Ashbourne, DE6 1ES
- OS grid reference
- SK 180 468
- Coordinates
- 53.01828, -1.73221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, dated 1861 and designed by architect Benjamin Wilson, is an important building located in the Market Place. It is constructed of ashlar masonry and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and three windows, with pilasters that have elaborate capitals flanking each window bay. The ground floor and the central first-floor windows are round-headed sash windows, and the glazing bars are intact. Above the entrance, there is a porch with an archivolt and a pierced balustrade. Inside, the first-floor board room includes cast iron rails leading to a gallery and an arcade, with a curved end wall that has niches. The roof is supported by square beams on brackets. The Town Hall is part of a group of listed buildings in the Market Place.
Local climate
The Town Hall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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