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Description: The Old Town Hall & Nos. 1 to 11 Town Hall Buildings

Address: Town Hall Buildings Huddersfield Road Elland Calderdale

Grade: II

Group detail: Huddersfield Road

Full description:
Former Town Hall, now club hall and shops. 1888. Designed by C.F.L. Horsfall. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate hipped roofs with various stacks Italianate style. Main entrance front, 2 storey, 3 windows. Central projecting giant portico, approached up a flight of steps with rusticated side walls and piers surmounted by iron finials. Pairs of Corinthian pilasters support a deep entablature and a decorated pediment. 2 round arched doorways with moulded surrounds with shafts and keystones. Above a balcony with balustrade to a large Venetian window with a moulded surround. Eitherside are single round headed windows to each floor with margin light sashes in moulded surrounds with keystones. At either corner single rusticated pilasters on the ground floor, with above pairs of Doric pilasters supporting a continuous entablature and decorated parapet with corner piers supporting urns. Above a single square cupola, with paired corner pilasters and central clock faces, surmounted by a dome with weather vane and corner urns. Eitherside pyramidal roofs rise with iron crowns, and and small circular dormer windows. Southgate front, 2 storey, 12 windows. Ground floor is divided into 6 bays by pairs of rusticated pilasters topped with brackets and pediments. The 5 bays to the right each have a shop front. The sixth bay, to the left, has a round headed doorway and blocked window both with moulded surrounds with keystones and impost band. Upper floor also 6 bays divided by pairs of pilaster strips, with a continuous plain entablature and parapet surmounted by 6 paired stacks. Each bay has 2 margin light sashes, in moulded light headed surrounds with keystones and continuous cill and impost bands. Below 6 panels with roundels and above a band with 6 roundels. Huddersfield Road front, 3 storey, 10 windows. Ground floor is divided by single rusticated pilasters, with double pilasters at corners, topped with brackets and pediments. Between 6 shop fronts. Upper floor divided 1.2.2.2.2.1. with dividing giant pilaster strips, and double pilaster strips at corners, supporting a plain entablature and parapet. Roof has 4 stone stacks. Both floors have round headed glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds with continuous cill and impost bands. Source: West Yorkshire: Architects and Architecture. Derek Linstrum. 1978.