Description

PRINCE OF WALES ROAD
1.
5320
Old Town-Hall
TG 2142 1/71

II

2.
1890 by George Skipper. Brick with painted front. Tiled roof with gabled ends.
2 storeys. 5 bays wide centre bay projects again with pediment with tympanum containing
scene with sailing ship. Moulded eaves cornice with dentils. 1st floor brick
pilasters fluted and rusticated with 2, 3 and 4-light mullion windows between with
3-centred arch heads to lights. Ground floor central 3-centred arch doorway with
voussoirs and small rectangular sashes with drip moulds over. Between 1st and ground
floor rectangular moulded panels containing shields and cartouche at centre over
doorway, containing inscription "Town Hall 1890". Moulded string courses and plinth.
Brick chimney stacks over gable ends with cornices. The south end gable is treated
as pediment with chimney breast running through and 2 windows either side similar
design to front. Long range behind, plain brick with buttressed walls and brick
dentil eaves.

Listing NGR: TG2174142190

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Old Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26466248

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)