The Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 February 1963. House.

The Town Hall

WRENN ID
worn-doorway-poplar
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 February 1963
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Town Hall is a 19th-century building featuring unevenly coursed limestone rubble walls and a Welsh slate roof. The roof has a large patch of differently coloured slates on the south slope, along with a stone lateral chimney-breast and truncated stack on the south-east elevation, as well as a modern brick stack near the verge. A bellcote and weathervane are located on the north-east gable. The building is two storeys high and has two-light mullioned windows with dripstones, some of which are new but designed to look original. The long elevations display irregular patterns of fenestration.

On the south-east elevation, there are three windows on the first floor and three below, two of which are new. This elevation also features two arched chamfered stone doorways: one leads to the hall (the first opening from the south-west) and the other to the council chamber (the fifth opening from the south-west). There is also a flat arched doorway (the fourth opening) with wooden doors that have cover strips. A lateral chimney breast is situated near the north-east end.

The north-west elevation has four windows and one four-light mullioned window on the first floor, with two windows on the ground floor. This elevation includes a wide chamfered doorway with an arched head leading to the council chamber and a cambered headed doorway with a stone voussoir head at the south-west end beneath the four-light window. There are also blocked openings.

Adjacent to the north-east gable, there is an outer store room with stone walls, which has a double flight of steps leading to a landing. This landing features two arched first floor stopped and chamfered doorways, with a stone sundial above. The landing is enclosed by a slate roof and a stone wall on the north-east side, which has a large opening and a circular clockface above it. The clockface is inscribed: "Presented to this Town in the Jubilee of Queen Victoria (i.e. 1887) by Mr. William Thomas of Ivy House (now Court House)."

Inside, there is an arched doorway between the treasurer's room and the hall, along with stopped and chamfered beams. The ground floor is divided into four offices, while the upper floor is a single open space. The entire layout is illustrated in plan and detail on pages 486-7 of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

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