Corn Exchange and Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. Market hall, town hall. 1 related planning application.
Corn Exchange and Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- knotted-hammer-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- Market hall, town hall
- Address
- Corn Exchange and Town Hall, the Square, South Swindon
- OS grid reference
- SU 158 836
- Coordinates
- 51.55133, -1.7733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Corn Exchange and Town Hall, originally built as a market hall and town hall between 1852 and 1854 by Sampson Sage and E. Robertson of Swindon, was later extended as a corn exchange in 1866 by Wilson and Willcox of Bath. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, with the roof not visible. The corn exchange features a two-storey design with five bays, which are divided by giant Tuscan pilasters. The ground floor is rusticated with arched openings between the pilasters, originally open but now fitted with 20th-century shop windows. The first floor has casement windows with lugged architraves, and there is a moulded panel over the entablature and pediment above the three central bays, which encloses a roundel. A balustrade square lantern with a cornice and arch houses a bell.
The 1866 extensions include the corn exchange at the rear, situated on a triangular site, and a tower to the left of the town hall facade. The tower is made of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and consists of four stages, featuring ground floor Ionic columns in antis. The windows on the first and second floors have architraves, while the top level includes open Venetian windows and corner Corinthian pilasters above the clock chamber. The tower is topped with a cornice, balustrade, and a square dome adorned with iron openwork crestings. The corn exchange at the rear has an arcaded elevation and is a single storey with a roof balustrade. The interior is not of special interest, and plans for the building are held in the British Architectural Library.
Local climate
Corn Exchange and Town Hall receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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