Building record 2416/0/335 - Oundle Town Hall

Built 1830. A squat cruciform building of two storeys in the Tudor manner. Steep gabled roofs of Welsh slate. Ground floor originally open as for a market.

{1} Built 1830. A squat cruciform building of 2 storeys in the Tudor manner. Steep gabled roofs of Welsh slate. Stone mullioned windows to 1st floor. Ground floor originally open as for a market with 4-centre-arched heads to bays, now roughly sealed off. A very important feature of the Market Place and good of its kind. It also adds charm to West Street by permitting only an oblique view from the east end of the Market Place. All the listed buildings in Market Place form a group.

{5}Where the court was held following the conversion of the Hall to tenements in the mid 16th century is not clear, but with the complete reorganisation of the market place in 1826 a new Market House was constructed in what was by then the centre of the market place, on the site of the earlier Shambles. Part of the stone for the construction of the new market house was brought from All Saints church, Barnwell.

{6}Town hall, Market Place
Erected in 1826 by Jesse Watts-Russell the lord of the manor. Substantial stone building, but very plain. Used as a butter market on the ground floor and as a literary institute and for public meetings on the upper floor. Now in use by small businesses. Film 2, photo 16. (1)

{7} Thirty-eight undated photos, one photo dated 1978, one dated 1988/7, and one dated May 1994;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 1/33 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H16 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Kaye J., 1994, SMR Report Form, (unchecked) (Photographic prints (COL)). SNN101371.

<4> 1994, The Old Town Hall, Oundle, (unchecked) (Plan). SNN101372.

<5> Foard G.; Ballinger J.;, 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Oundle, Section 3.5.1.3 Moot Hall and Market Place (Report). SNN102637.

<6> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Oundle (Industrial), (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN100257.

<7> Photographs of buildings in Oundle (Photographs). SNN114658.

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Mar 29 2023 2:03PM