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© Samantha Jones
IoE Number:
212666
Location:
ASHTON UNDER LYNE TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE (north side)
ASHTON UNDER LYNE, TAMESIDE, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Samantha Jones
Date Photographed:
16 August 2000
Date listed:
12 January 1967
Date of last amendment:
14 July 1987
Grade
II
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ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE MARKET PLACE
SJ 99 NW (north side)
4/18 Ashton-under-Lyne
Town Hall
(formerly listed
as Town Hall)
12/01/67
G.V. II
Town Hall. 1840, extended in 1878. By Young and Lee. Ashlar.
7 x 8 bays with a 5-bay extension. All of 2 storeys raised
above a basement storey. Neo-classical. 5-bay centre has
attached giant columns supporting a dentilled entablature,
and a balustered parapet which conceals the roof and has
articulating dies and a datestone. Rusticated ground floor
with round-arched openings. Eared architraves to first floor
windows. Extension treated similarly but with giant
pilasters. Interior: entrance hall with Ionic columns. The
grand imperial staircase gives access to the civic hall on
the first floor. It has cast-iron balusters and a rooflight
above a coved soffit and frieze with early C18-style
plasterwork. The civic hall has a concaved coffered ceiling.
The extension houses the Council Chamber on the first floor.
Window and door openings are below round arches with
classical enrichment (which includes palm leaf motifs).
Cross-beamed ceiling supported on pilasters. Pitch Pine
doors. The C20 civic offices which adjoin are not included
in this entry.