Old Town Hall Whitby, England

Listed Building Data

Old Town Hall has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1261706
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
23 February 1954
Name
OLD TOWN HALL
Location
OLD TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
Parish
Whitby
District
Scarborough
County
North Yorkshire
Grid Reference
NZ 90004 11168
Easting
490003.7560
Northing
511168.1220

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

  1. 1811 MARKET PLACE

Old Town Hall NZ 9011 2/157 23.2.54.

II* GV

    1. Jonathan Pickernell of Whitby, architect; built at the expense of Nathaniel Cholmley. 2 storeys, ashlar with open ground floor on pillars. North front with square rusticated angle piers and 2 Doric columns and attached half columns. Venetian windows and quoins to first floor. Oval plaque with date below window; pediment with shield of arms of Cholmley. Slate roof. South front similar but without plaque and with round window in tympanum. Sides with 3 double-hung sash windows. Rectangular clock turret with gilded figures and hands on all sides, cornice. Octagonal arcaded louvred domed bell-cote with gold ball and fish vane.

All the listed buildings in Market Place and Clothing Factory, Sandgate form a group.

Listing NGR: NZ9000411168