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Description: Civic Hall

Address: Brighouse Civic Hall 9 Bradford Road Brighouse Calderdale HD6 1RW

Grade: II

Group detail: Bethel Street (north side) & Bradford Road (west side)

Full description:
Nos. 2, 4 and 6 Bethel Street and includes Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 Bradford Road. Originally the Town Hall, 1868 by Mallinson and Barber (Halifax), used as a theatre from 1880, a magistrates court from 1898 and a cinema from 1902 to 1959. Opened as a Civic Hall 1968. 1st floor hall with ground floor shops. Set at a splayed angle to front 2 streets. Hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Bethel Street facade of 3 storeys and 5 symmetrical bays. Ground floor has rusticated bands has 3 segmental arched window openings with joggled voussoirs and vermiculated keystone flanked by semi-cicular arched doorways with moulded heads and projecting keystone. Band. 1st floor has 4 sash windows (some of which retain their original 12 panes) with architrave, elliptical arch with keystone, cornice, the outer bays are surmounted by pediments over which are circular blind openings with 2-light mullioned windows between with plain surrounds. Band, cornice and blocking course hipped roof and central stack. Right hand return wall fronting Bradford Road has 2 similar ground floor windows surviving in a 7-bay facade. 2 storeys. 1st floor has sash windows the outer of which retain their glazing of 12 panes set within a blind arcade with semi-circular arches with hood mould and keystone. Outer bays have shell motif within arch. Between each bay are circles. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse, (Brighouse 1978), p.37.