Town Hall

MALMESBURY

ST9387 CROSS HAYES 758-1/4/60 (North side) 23/03/76 Town Hall

GV II

Town Hall. Facade 1854, extended 1927; incorporates C17 work to rear. Squared, coursed limestone facade, coursed rubble and dressings to returns and rear, ashlar gable stacks and stone slate roof. STYLE: Tudor Revival. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 3-window range, with a 3 storey; 3-window range left-hand extension. A symmetrical front has diagonal buttresses with first-floor drip mould, cornice, central coped gable and coped end gables; 4-centre arched ground-floor openings with drips, narrower to the left with a central doorway with ridge door, and 3-light mullion and transom right-hand window, tall second-floor flat-headed window with 9-light mullion and transom windows, and central 12-light canted oriel with moulded base and top. 2 right-hand return gables with moulded stacks, rear elevation has a C17 left-hand 2 storey tower with a small 4-centre arched doorway. Right-hand extension has wide 4-centre arched ground-floor openings, 3-light and a central first-floor 4-light mullion windows and a central gable and finial; similar 2-window left-hand return. INTERIOR: largely remodelled mid C20; first-floor hall with proscenium arch. (Victoria History of the Counties of England: Crowley DA: Wiltshire: 1991-: 151).

Listing NGR: ST9338087201