Building record 1933/0/16 - Town Hall, Berry Green Road

Temperance Hall, now town hall and public library. Datestone 1868.

{1} 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.

{3} Finedon town Hall erected in 1868 as the Temperance Hall. Still standing and in use as a town and community hall. The structure is a Grage II listed building. The plans and elevations show the building in 2000.

{4} Town hall is a red sandstone building. Originally built as the Temperance Hall in 1868. Used between 1895 and 1935 as the town hall for meetings and business of Finedon Urban District Council. Now in use as a town hall, library and community hall. Film 2, photo 3,4
Temperance Hall. Erected in 1868 and has since been reorganised and functions at the Town Hall. A Finedon Pageant.

{6} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/6 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G04 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

<3> Gotch Pearson, 2000, Finedon Town Hall, (checked) (Plan). SNN101175.

<4> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Industrial Period, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN4.

<5> Bailey J.L.H., 1975, Finedon Otherwise Thingdon: A History of Finedon, p.141 (unchecked) (Book). SNN105040.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Finedon (Photographs). SNN111732.

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