Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| town hall, Alston | ||
| Alston Town Hall | ||
| locality:- | Alston | |
| civil parish:- | Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | town hall | |
| coordinates:- | NY71774647 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7146 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY74 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 34 9) placename:- Town Hall |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Town Hall |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "TOWN HALL / / FRONT STREET / ALSTON MOOR / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73116 / NY7176946474" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Municipal Offices. 1857 by A.B. Higham of Newcastle. Rough-faced snecked rubble with quoins on chamfered plinth; 1st floor string. Graduated slate roofs with stone copings, kneelers and corniced stone chimneys. Gothic style. Asymmetrical north front of 2 storeys with attic; 5 bays. Doorway with pointed head in ground floor of central tower which carried clock turret. Mullioned and transomed windows, some under hoodmoulds. Bank entrance at left. Library at right has large 4-light 1st floor window with cusped heads to lights under pointed containing arch; flanking niches. Symmetrical 3-bay west return of similar style with central gabled dormer; similar dormers on main front." |
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