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Description: District Council Office

Address: Council Offices St George's Street Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: St. George's Street, Hebden Bridge

Full description:
Former Hebden Royd Council offices dated 1897. Dressed stone, slate roof. 2 and a half storeys. Of 3 linear divisions. 1st division has main feature of porch with stilted arch with dropped keystone and carved impost. Parapet bears date. To left, and over to 1st floor, mullioned windows with transoms. Flush with projecting porch is 2nd division which has impressive canted oriel window with ogee transom, swan-neck pediment and triangular pedimented gable with circular window. 3rd division has basket arched entry with joggled voussoirs to former fire-station. 1st floor has mullioned windows with transoms with similar gable over to attic. Between each division semi-octagonal buttresses with finials. Left hand return wall has extruded stack with triangular pediment set within shaped gable with, to either side, mullioned windows with finialed buttresses to the outside. One other elaborately dressed stack to ridge. Interior: 1st floor council chamber has original fittings; horse-shoe table, canopied chairman's chair, panelled walls, coved plaster ceiling. Prominent within the town. Illustrated in Calder Civic Trust, Hebden Bridge Trail, (Bolton, no date) p.8.