Townhall is a Grade II* listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. Town hall. 22 related planning applications.
Townhall
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-pediment-shade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1954
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Townhall, 1, St Mary's Hill, Stamford, PE9 2DR
- OS grid reference
- TF 030 070
- Coordinates
- 52.65112, -0.47808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, built in 1777 and designed by architect Lovell, is a Grade II* listed building located on St Mary's Hill. It features a terrace with nine stone steps and an iron handrail. The structure has three storeys constructed in ashlar, with a rusticated ground floor and chamfered rusticated quoins. The top storey has six windows that flank a central cartouche displaying the town arms. The first floor is designed with a 2-3-2 window arrangement, and the central section of the building projects forward, also featuring rusticated quoins. The upper windows are adorned with ornamental architraves that include keystones and glazing bars. A panelled parapet and a moulded cornice with a frieze, similar to the window architraves, complete the top of the building.
The ground floor has six windows set in round-headed architraves with keystones, and there is a band between the ground and first floors. The central entrance consists of modern double doors beneath an ornamental semi-circular fanlight, while another doorway, created from a window space, features a six-panel door.
The return elevation consists of three storeys with seven windows, echoing the main front's architectural style and also containing a cartouche at the centre of the top floor. The third-floor windows have had their glazing bars replaced. A round-arched rusticated doorway on this elevation has double doors with four panels and two panels above, topped with a semi-circular glazed fanlight.
Nos 1 to 3 form a group, and the return elevation also contributes to a group with Nos 1 to 4 and the Church of St Mary on St Mary's Place.
Local climate
Townhall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 22 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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