Listed Building: Town Hall (1040662)

Temperance Hall, now town hall and public library. Datestone 1868. Squared coursed ironstone with ashlar dressings. First-floor hall with former hall-keepers dwelling below. South elevation has central gabled porch with pair of panelled doors in moulded stone surround and arch head; small trefoil above. Tall 3-light first-floor window has square stepped head and moulded stone surround. Stepped gable above has ashlar parapets, kneelers, and arch head finial with datestone. Clock with moulded stone surround above windows. North elevation is similar but plain with central arch head opening, with moulded stone surround, giving access to first-floor hall. Side elevations of 4-window ranges of 2-light windows with moulded stone surrounds and pointed heads at first floors. 2 stage buttresses between windows. Lateral stone stacks. Interior: first-floor hall retains C19 exposed roof structure. (Finedon Otherwise Thingdon by J.L.H. Bailey, p.141).

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