Town Hall Arts Centre

HAVERHILL

TL6745 HIGH STREET 816-1/5/20 (South West side) 09/05/73 Town Hall Arts Centre (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (South West side) Town Hall)

GV II

Public hall. 1883 by Edward Sharman of Wellingborough, donation of the Gurteen family. Red brick with stone and glazed tile dressings and slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2-storey plus attic. 3-bay gabled front to street with projecting full-height central porch. On ground floor, porch has arched openings on three sides: on first floor, oriel window enriched with cast-iron decorative latticing to upper lights: at attic level, geometric traceried 3-light window. On each side of porch, both bays have paired lancets on ground and first floors, the latter with a common shouldered hood. Decorative cast-iron latticing recurs. First-floor band of glazed tiles; cement rendered second-floor band. Corbelled and dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped roof with apex gablets pierced by octofoil roundels. Returns: 7-window ranges with 2-light casements on both floors. INTERIOR: closed-string staircase right of porch with turned balusters and panelled string. Entire first floor occupied by Council Chamber fitted with dado panelling: barrel roof on arched braces describing semicircular profile and braced by 4 tiers of purlins. (Crouch P: Haverhill Town Trail: Haverhill: 1981-).

Listing NGR: TL6733745299