Town Hall

TL 2697 WHITTLESEY MARKET STREET (North Side) 19/119 No. 18 (Town Hall)

GV II

Fire Engine house with town hall over. The ground floor is now a Museum and Office. Dated 1857. Grey gault brick with red brick dressings and steeply pitched roof, now covered with asbestos slates. End stack of gault brick. Double eaves cornice of both dentil and sawtooth red brickwork. Two storeys framed by red brick rusticated quoins. Red brick round headed arches to range of five windows at first floor. Between the storeys, four moulded terracotta panels set diagonally, each with a numeral 1, 8, 5 or 7. Cut and moulded red brickwork to arches and voussoirs of engine house openings, now part glazed and blocked. The words "fire engines" are painted, to the arches. Central doorway with double recessed round headed archway of red brick, the tympanium of the arch filled with faience tiles. Double doors. Inside: There is a lockup with original door, and louvre above. The town hall, which was also the Magistrates Court, possibly has its original hammerbeam roof although this is now concealed by the later inserted roof.

Listing NGR: TL2692697068