Town Hall

SU6089SE 11/113 09/12/49

WALLINGFORD MARKET PLACE (South side) Wallingford Town Hall (Formerly listed as Town Hall or Guildhall)

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Town hall. c. 1670, repaired 1822, repaired and altered 1887, addition of c. 1933. Stone Doric columns to ground floor, with some rendered brick infill to rear. Lined render on timber framing to first floor; old plain-tile hipped roof, brick ridge stack to rear. 2-storey and attic; 5-window range with main front to end facing Market Place. Open columned ground floor. Venetian window with glazing bars and painted columned surround and balcony with wrought iron balustrade to first floor centre. Quoins to corners of building. Cornice to eaves. Gabled dormer having Venetian window with glazing bars. Left return to St. Mary's s Street: 3 bays to ground floor right infilled, with 12-pane unhorned sashes with painted architrave surrounds. 12-pane unhorned sashes with painted architrave surrounds and cornices to first floor. 2 hipped dormers. Interior: stone winder stair to cellar. Chamfered spine beam with ogee end stops to cellar. Council chamber to first floor: fielded panelling to dado. Square Doric half-columns with dentil cornice supporting tie beams of roof, 8-panel doors to each side of dias with architrave surrounds and pediments. Committee room: fielded panelling With dentil cornice to dado. C18 stone fireplace with C19 cast-iron grate. Moulded plaster panels to ceiling. Curved principal roof construction visible to attic. Addition of c.1933 of external staircase and 2-bays in same style to right return of St, Martin's Street. History: Council Chamber remodelled by removal of ceiling to form curved ceiling, in 1887, to celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, I966, p.249; V.C.H, Berkshire, Vol,111, 1923, p,519).

Listing NGR: SU6071689359