The Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. Town hall. 2 related planning applications.

The Town Hall

WRENN ID
young-chamber-soot
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1950
Type
Town hall
Address
The Town Hall, Market Place, Westbury, BA13 3DG
OS grid reference
ST 873 515
Coordinates
51.26272, -2.18208
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Town Hall is an early 19th-century building located on the east side of Westbury Market Place. An inscription on the frieze states, "Built by Sir Massey Lopes Baronet, Recorder of this Borough, Anno Domini MDCCCXV." The building has two storeys and is constructed of Bath stone ashlar that has been cleaned and restored. It features a hipped slate roof and is divided into three bays on the ground floor, which is colonnaded and supported by rusticated piers with two Roman Doric columns in each bay, holding up a wooden entablature. There are three modern shops within the colonnade.

The central bay of the first floor projects slightly, with each bay containing an arched recess that has moulded architraves and a moulded string at the springing. The central recess features an arched panel with a clock face, while the flanking recesses have arched windows with narrow margins and radiating glazing. The first floor recesses have balustered aprons, and the capping is continued as a cill band. The plain frieze includes a curved inscription, a small moulded cornice, and a blocking course. The central block is topped with a moulded pediment that displays the Lopes Arms carved in stone within the tympanum. Each end elevation has a similar recessed window on the first floor, and the colonnade is also returned at the ends.

Local climate

The Town Hall receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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