Worthing Town Hall Including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room is a Grade II listed building in the Worthing local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1982. Town hall. 4 related planning applications.
Worthing Town Hall Including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room
- WRENN ID
- sombre-pilaster-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worthing
- Constituency
- Worthing West MP: Dr Beccy Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1982
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Worthing Town Hall Including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room, Chapel Road, BN11 1HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 147 029
- Coordinates
- 50.81468, -0.37216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Worthing Town Hall, including the Assembly Hall and Worthing Room, was built in 1933-1934 and designed by architect C. Cowles Voysey, with detailing by J. Brandon-Jones. The Town Hall features a Neo-Georgian style, consisting of a central section flanked by two wings. The central part is three storeys high, constructed of red brick, topped with a hipped slate roof and a stone eave cornice. It has a band below the second floor and a plinth, with nine sash windows set in moulded architraves. A central Ionic portico displays the motto "EX TERRA COPIAM E MARI SALUTEM," and the first-floor windows behind the portico have cast iron balconettes. The doorcase features console brackets, and a clock tower with a cupola is topped by a ball finial and eight Tuscan columns with plumed capitals. The two-storey wings match the central section in style, also made of red brick with a slate roof, stone cornice, and plinth, and five sash windows, along with similar doorcases featuring entablatures and console brackets.
The Assembly Hall at the rear is designed in a Scandinavian Modernist style with Art Deco influences. It is two storeys high, built of red brick, with a cornice made of bricks set endwise. The hall has five bays, with the three central ones projecting and featuring three Art Deco style stone tragic masks over waves above the first-floor windows. It includes pivoting casement windows and triple bronze doors with eight panels divided by stone rustication and a wave-patterned cornice that incorporates the letter W for Worthing. A canopy is positioned above the entrance, which is accessed by six steps flanked by large stone urns on square plinths.
The Worthing Room is a one-storey addition to the west, designed to match the main building. Inside the Town Hall, there is an impressive marble entrance hall with a staircase featuring an elaborate cast iron balustrade. The Assembly Hall contains Art Deco style reliefs with a marine theme and star-shaped light fittings, and the proscenium arch is flanked by relief sea horses.
Local climate
Worthing Town Hall Including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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