Description

SU 63 6451 (part) BASINGSTOKE MARKET PLACE

3/29
Town Hall, with
attached drinking
fountain.

- II

1835. A symmetrical facade of classical form; 2 storeys, 5 1st floor windows.
Stucco walling: the parapet has a moulded coping and a stepped panel above a fully
moulded cornice and plain frieze, the centre (above the cornice) being raised to
accommodate a decorative cartouche between pilasters. At each side there are
pilasters, passing through the 1st floor stage which is marked by a moulded cill
band and plinth, resting on a cornice and frieze, a plain ground floor stage is
divided between aide and central entrance by ½ columns separating coupled arched
windows above panels; the arched doorway is part of a Tuscan porch (of 2 column
2 pilasters) with a balustered parapet. The upper windows have an architrave
below a cornice and pulvinated frieze Victorian sashes to 1st floor, casements on
ground floor. The classical form continues for 2 bays at each end (facing Church
Street and Wote Street), extending a further 2 bays in red brickwork. C19 drinking
fountain to rear, (temporarily removed at time of re-survey).

Listing NGR: SU6223851421

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Willis Museum at Wikipedia
• Willis Museum official website
• Wikidata Q26524524

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Recommended Books

• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets