Description

1. MARKET PLACE
5355
Town Hall
SU 7582 1/65 25.1.51

II GV

The Town Hall shall be upgraded to" GRADE II*"]

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1. MARKET PLACE
5355
Town Hall
SU 7582 1/65 25.1.51

II GV

The entry shall be amended to read:-

SU 7582 HENLEY-ON-THAMES MARKET PLACE

1/65 Town Hall
25.1.51

GV II*
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1. MARKET PLACE
5355
Town Hall
SU 7582 1/65 25.1.51.

II GV

2.
1899-1900. Architect Henry T Hare. Red brick with stone dressings.
Hipped slate roof with central cupola surmounted by gold ball and weather
vane. Central postion advanced under stone pediment with cornice and
bas relief heraldic carving in tympanum. Central Venetian window with
stone architrave breaks through eaves cornice below. Flanking double
pilasters of Ionic order above stone plinth which carries War Memorial
tablets either side of central doorway. Door set under shouldered, round
headed, stone arch and approached by a flight of steps. Narrow flanking
windows in recessed side walls in basement and floor above - otherwise
blank. This facade occupies a very prominent position in the town, closing
the western end of the vista along Hunt Street and Market Place. 11 bay
side facades. Each end advanced under pediment. Rear elevation also
with central pediment.

The Town Hall forms the focus of a group consisting of Nos 5 to 31 (odd),
No 10 and Nos 20 to 36 (even) including the barn at the rear of Nos 32
to 34 (even) Market Place. It also is part of a second Market Place group
consisting of Nos 50 to 52, Nos 62 to 66 (even) and Nos 35 to 63 (odd)
including the buildings at the rear of No 37.

Listing NGR: SU7594082622

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 17 August 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17548970

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)