2, Bedford Street

1. 774 BEDFORD STREET (West Side)

No 2 TL 0338 1/119 17.7.51.

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2. On the site of the ancient Moot-Hall, an ornate corner-building designed in the Jacobean revival style by Edward Blore in 1852. 2 storeys of mottled brick with shaped gables. Facades of 45 and 15 ft facing onto Bedford and Woburn Streets respectively. Red brick dressing and moulding to the mullioned windows of varying sizes. Graded partly on account of the Town Clock:- Riding the tiled roof near the crossroads, is the wooden Clock-tower of circa 1700. The Clock is set in a square base supporting a carved cupola formed by 8 columns enclosing alternate round and flat arches, surmounted by a deeply moulded cornice, above which a pagoda-like leaden roof rises from its octagonal base to a slender pinnacle. Higher still rises an ornamental wrought iron spike, carrying a gilded weather vane and 2 onion- shaped red wooden finials. See drawing of 1813 in FCB, showing this structure on the original Moot-Hall: also VCH page 268.

Listing NGR: TL0347138121