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Town Hall, Egremont
Street:-   Main Street
locality:-   Egremont
civil parish:-   Egremont (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   town hall
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY01061087
1Km square:-   NY0110
10Km square:-   NY01
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BUX15.jpg (taken 4.7.2011)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"TOWN HALL / / MAIN STREET / EGREMONT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76131 / NY0106010879"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Town Hall; 1889-90 (Pevsner). Snecked rubble with quoins on chamfered plinth; string between floors. Graduated slate roofs with stone copings, kneelers, and finials to gables; corniced stone chimney to north end. Symmetrical 2-storey elevation with 5-stage tower; 2:1:2 bays. Ground-floor to central tower has panelled door and fanlight in 4-centred door-surround with cast-iron lamp bracket above. Tower has segment-headed openings; clock to top stage. Pyramidal roof has gablets to each side and weathervane to top. Sashes to bays on either side of tower have triangular-headed surrounds to ground floor and segment-headed surrounds to 1st floor; louvre above in gable. 3 sashes to each floor on south return, all in segment-headed surrounds."

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