The Town Hall

HIGH STREET 1. 5303 (East Side) The Town Hall SP 7387 1/43 25.7.52. II GV

1. 1. Island building. Red brick with stone dressings including bands between floors. Hipped slate roof. 3 storeys. Rectangular plan with short side facing north up High Street. This facade has outer brick pilasters extending from 1st floor band to eaves band and cornice. Arcaded ground floor of 3 bays with impost bands, stone arches and footings. Arcades now filled in. Centre double wooden doors. 1st and 2nd floors have Venetian windows with stone architraves. Main facade faces west. Arcaded 5-bay ground floor. Centre breaks forward with 3 windows under a pediment with moulded stone capping. Tympanum has arms of the Earl of Harborough. 5 barred sashes with gauged flat red brick arches. Southern facade has 3-bay arcade and 3 storeys of windows above this. Some sashes with glazing bars remain but windows mostly blocked. Eastern facade has arcaded ground floor but only 1 centre top storey window above. Ground floor has good brick vaulting - originally used as a Market Hall and Butchers Shambles. Cellar has similar treatment. Said to have been built, by the Earl of Harborough, "partly for the tammy manufacturers" (ref White 1863).

Listing NGR: SP7328287370