Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1979. Town hall. 10 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- peeling-stair-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1979
- Type
- Town hall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK 2323 SE 5/95 SK 22 SW 6/95
KING EDWARD PLACE Town Hall
GV II 1878 and later. Gothic style. Red brick with stone dressings. The original portion built by Reginald Churchill for Michael Thomas Bass. Two storeys with gables. Each bay has a three-light window in foil-headed stone surround with mullions and transom, the lights with foil heads and quatrefoil panels below; elaborate decoration with bands of blind quatrefoils at first storey and to parapet; coped gabled and stone piers with pinnacles supporting figures of lions bearing standards.
Later portion, on left-hand side, is of 1894 and in similar style, with clock tower and doorway below in stone surround and with wrought iron porte-cochere. Two storeyed wing to left is of three bays, each with three-light stone mullioned window, the centre bay projecting and with gable and angled buttresses. Elaborate single storeyed wing on left-hand side containing concert hall has various projecting gabled bays with pointed arched windows and an arched doorway to right. Tiled roofs.
Listing NGR: SK2400123438
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