Town Hall

The Town Hall, built in 1870 by Ernest Prestwick from Leigh in Lancashire, is a Grade II listed building located on the west side of Hungerford High Street. It features a slate roof with a parapet at the front and corbelled eaves on the sides, along with a lead cupola and balcony. The structure is made of red brick with yellow moulded dressings, stone copings, cornices, and a bell arch balustrade supported by columns.

Architectural details include bracketed cornices, a patterned frieze, and channelled brick pilasters topped with stone capitals. The building has two storeys, with meeting rooms at the front and a corn exchange hall positioned at right angles to the rear. The road frontage showcases a balcony over a loggia to the left, and a clock tower over the entrance to the right.

There are three semi-circular arched glazing bar sashes set in recessed yellow brick arches with drip moulds and moulded imposts. The first floor features a balustraded balcony over the loggia, with three semi-circular arched openings adorned with moulded yellow voussoirs on two columns and half-columns, which have oversized simplified leaf capitals and plain bases, leading up to three steps.

The clock tower is topped with a cupola and an iron weathervane, and it includes clocks in aedicules set on a bracketed cornice with a moulded frieze. Below are three stilted arched-headed louvred vents with moulded strings, a yellow band, and square columns with moulded caps in between. Beneath these vents are double arched windows with columns and ornate decorations in the tympanum of the large outer arch.

The entrance features a stone balcony on brackets above an arched opening, with deep leaf ornamentation and bracketed caps on wide brick piers that have roll mould corners and dog tooth ornamentation in the channels. A stone plinth supports three steps leading up to the entrance.