Town Hall

The Town Hall in Ashburton is a market hall that has been in use since it was built between 1849 and 1850 by Lord Clinton, with architectural design by A Norman from Devonport. The building is constructed from squared and coursed limestone rubble, featuring granite dressings, while the rear wing is partly rendered and partly made of random limestone rubble with red-brick dressings. It has hipped slated roofs and a rendered chimney on the rear wing.

This two-storey structure showcases an Italianate design. The main façade facing North Street is seven windows wide and includes a square clock tower with a bell-turret at the left end. The ground floor features five round-arched openings with continuous imposts, where the keystones of the center and end arches are highlighted. The central arch contains a doorway with iron gates, while the other arches have windows; the two nearest the center have six-paned sash windows, and the outer ones have fixed six-paned sashes with transom-lights.

On the upper storey, the windows are round-arched with plain granite surrounds and continuous moulded imposts, featuring four-paned sashes. Beneath these windows is a pedestal course with a prominent moulded stringcourse at its base. The right-hand end of the front has raised quoins, with the ground storey quoins being rough-faced. The building has a bracketed eaves-cornice.

The tower's ground storey is entirely rough-faced, with plain raised quoins above. The eaves-cornice continues around the tower, which supports the bell-turret. This turret has round-arched openings on each side with granite keystones and imposts, a prominent moulded cornice, and a stepped conical roof topped with a ball-finial and weathervane. The bell remains in place.

The rear wing, which faces the car park, features tall round-arched windows with four-paned sashes on the upper storey and has a prominent boxed eaves-cornice.