Survey Data
Reg No
31306304
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Charlestown Town Hall
Original Use
Town/county hall
In Use As
Town/county hall
Date
1895 - 1905
Coordinates
148112, 301887
Date Recorded
07/11/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey town hall, sanctioned 1900[?]; extant 1911. Renovated to accommodate alternative use. Replacement pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and uPVC rainwater goods on "Cavetto"-detailed moulded rendered cornice. Replacement rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Segmental-headed window openings (ground floor) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with concrete sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of street in relandscaped grounds.
Appraisal
A town hall representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Charlestown. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a town hall making a pleasing visual statement in Ballagh Street.