1842 - Town Hall - Calderwood Street, Woolwich, London, UK
N 51° 29.443 E 000° 03.858
31U E 296203 N 5708484
This 1842 building is Woolwich Old Town Hall. It stands at the junction of Calderwood Street and Polytechnic Street and, amongst other things, houses the Citizen's Advice Bureau.
Waymark Code: WMG1GK
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/01/2013
Views: 1
The building is Grade II listed and the
entry at the English Heritage website [visit
link] tells us:
"1842. Calderwood Street front. 2
storeys (The upper one taller) 3 windows. Stucco. 2 flat pilasters support
entablature and pediment over 2 left bays. Right bay has entablature with
cornice and blocking course only. Pilasters rest on rusticated ground floor with
quoins. On 1st floor large sash windows, with delicate glazing bars, in moulded
architraves with bracketed cornices over. Ground floor windows segmental arched
sashes with glazing bars, (one replaced). Double door at right under bracketed
cornice. Inscription "Town Hall" in frieze. Date "1842" below frieze.
Polytechnic Street return 2 storeys, 4 windows. Multicoloured stock brick with
rusticated stucco ground floor. Wide, stucco pilasters define narrower outer
bays and support frieze with wreaths, cornice and blocking course. Windows as on
other front. Double door in 2nd bay; single door in
4th."
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