Town Hall

CALNE

ST9970 THE STRAND 755-1/5/180 (South side) 08/07/76 Town Hall

GV II

Town hall. c1884-6. By Oliver. Squared, coursed limestone rubble, with a slate roof. Tudor Revival style. Irregular plan, with left-hand council chamber and rear hall, central clock tower and carriage archway, and right-hand double-depth plan offices along Patford Street. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. An irregular front has a plinth, strings, and coped gables and parapet, with mullion and transom windows: a left-hand full-height gable with paired 3-light ground-floor windows, paired cross windows above a carved panel on the first floor, and a 3-light attic mullion window under blind panelling beneath the gable; beneath the tower is a Tudor-arched doorway, 9-light first-floor stair window, and an ashlar clock tower with clock set in a shallow recess, and a pyramidal roof. A wide Tudor-arched carriageway beneath a 6-light window, and 8- and 3-light windows to the right-hand section beneath a pair of small gables. INTERIOR: details include an open-well stair with a lift inserted to the well, panelled council chamber, and rear meeting hall.

Listing NGR: ST9973670972