Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Public hall. 5 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- brooding-storey-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich MP: Valerie Vaz (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- Public hall
- Address
- Town Hall, Leicester Street, WS1 1TW
- OS grid reference
- SP 014 986
- Coordinates
- 52.58567, -1.98034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, built in 1903 by J S Gibson, is a public hall located on Leicester Street in Walsall. It features a facade made of sandstone ashlar in a Baroque style. The facade includes a central moulded pediment and flanking towers with cornices. A lower entrance is set forward, with concave outer sides and channelled rustication. On either side of the doorway, there are windows with architraves. The doorway itself has an architrave with central engaged Tuscan columns within a round arch, and the tympanum is carved with two figures and the date "1903".
Inside, the hall has a shallow barrel vault and decorative plasterwork in a Baroque style. The side walls are adorned with an entablature featuring a modillion cornice, and above each window, there is a pediment on brackets. At the south end of the hall, there is a gallery, while the north end is apsidal, containing a stage and a raised organ. The Town Hall adjoins the Council House, which is also listed.
Local climate
Town Hall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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