Old Poplar Town Hall And Council Offices

In the entry for: HIGH STREET, POPLAR E14 1. 4431 No 117 (Old Poplar Town Hall, Council Offices) TQ 3780 25/902

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The address shall be amended to read "Poplar High Street, E14".

------------------------------------ These buildings were added to the list by the 16th amendment dated 1st July 1983.

HIGH STREET, POPLAR E14 1. 4431 No 117 (Old Poplar TQ 3780 25/902 Town Hall, Council Offices) II. 2. Dated 1870, built on a corner site with octagonal tower capped by finialed copper dome holding the corner. Stock brick with Portland stone dressings and some polychromy in a High Victorian free Gothic with some Venetian detailing. Two storey wings abutt the corner tower, that to north along Woodstock Terrace taller and of more Venetian inspiration with coupled and quadrupled groups of tall narrow windows divided by granite foliate copped shafts, to the piano mobile and with deep stone bracketed eaves cornice to steep hipped slate roof. The west wing has a steep gable end slate roof with gabled dormers and stone coped gables. The corner tower has more ornate detailing with bracket cornice and pierced work parapet over first floor; dog toothed eaves cornice to dome and with gablets to alternate narrower faces. Shafted portal with carved archivolt and spandrels. Vermiculated dwarf walls support cast iron area railings terminating in pedestals, those flanking doorway surmounted by Gothic shaft cast iron lamp standards.

Listing NGR: TQ3780180782