Town Hall Including Area Railings at Front is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Town hall.
Town Hall Including Area Railings at Front
- WRENN ID
- waning-transept-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall Including Area Railings at Front, the Square, North Tawton
- OS grid reference
- SS 663 017
- Coordinates
- 50.79985, -3.8973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, dated 1849, is located in The Square, North Tawton. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features a gable-ended slate roof with two gables at the front. The building has a double-depth plan with a central entrance hall and a room on either side.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front. The right and left-hand bays are topped with pedimented gables and divided by stone pilasters, with stringcourses at both the floor and eaves levels. The original sash windows have depressed two-centred arched heads and projecting keystones, although the ground floor right-hand window is a 20th-century replica. The central doorway also features a similar arched head and keystone, inscribed with "J Parish builder 1849," and has 20th-century panelled double doors behind it.
Additionally, there are area railings at the front, on the left and right, which have spear heads on the shafts and stanchions.
Local climate
Town Hall Including Area Railings at Front sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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