Former Withington Town Hall Manchester, England
Listed Building Data
Former Withington 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1291512
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 5 November 1990
- Name
- FORMER WITHINGTON TOWN HALL
- Location
- FORMER WITHINGTON TOWN HALL, LAPWING LANE
- District
- Manchester
- Grid Reference
- SJ 84283 92141
- Easting
- 384283.0000
- Northing
- 392141.0000
Listed Building Description
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MANCHESTER
SJ89SW LAPWING LANE, Barlow Moor 698-1/8/842 (South West side) 05/11/90 Former Withington Town hall
II
Local Board of Health offices, now former Town Hall. Probably c.1880-90. Buff brick with dressings of red brick and red terracotta, slate roof. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street, formed by entrance block parallel to street, rear block on the same axis, and an intermediate range betwen these. Two unequal storeys and 5 bays, symmetrical, with banded red brick plinth, red brick pilasters (banded at 1st floor), pierced parapet with urn finials and central clock-turret. The ground floor has a round-headed doorway with terracotta architrave including fluted pilasters, rusticated voussoirs with scrolled keystone and enriched pediment on scrolled consoles, and 2 windows to each bay, with buff brick pilasters and red terracotta heads. The 1st floor has large elliptical-arched windows with similar pilasters and enriched red terracotta heads and keystones, containing tripartite sashes with coloured small-paned heads; and over the central bay is a gable containing a terracotta roundel with a shield and console supporters, under a semi-circular band with raised lettering "LOCAL BOARD OFFICES", and behind this a short pyramidal turret supporting a square clock with swept copper-clad fleche finished with a weathervane. The gable walls are similar to the front, that to the left with a large elliptical-arched window at 1st floor, and both with shaped gables and enriched triangular pediments of red terracotta. Lower ranges to rear in similar materials but simpler style. Interior: large open-well staircase with ornamental cast-iron balusters; 1st-floor assembly hall. History: Withington Local Board formed in 1876, became Urban District Council 1894. Good example of modest late C19 civic building, representing an important phase in the development of local government.
Listing NGR: SJ8428392141
