Clevedon Town Hall

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Clevedon Town Hall
Clevedon Town Council Offices (geograph 6605293).jpg
The building in 2020
LocationOld Street, Clevedon
Coordinates 51°26′14″N2°50′54″W / 51.4372°N 2.8484°W / 51.4372; -2.8484
Built1860
Architectural style(s) Tudor style
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameSt Andrews Infants School
Designated16 September 1999
Reference no.1113001
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Shown in Somerset

Clevedon Town Hall is a municipal building in Old Street in Clevedon, a town in Somerset in England. The building, which was commissioned as a primary school but currently accommodates the offices and meeting place of Clevedon Town Council, is a Grade II listed building. [1]

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History

The Council House

Following significant population growth, largely associated with the town's role as a seaside resort, a local board of health, chaired by Sir Arthur Elton, was appointed in Clevedon in April 1853. [2] In 1894, the local board of health was succeeded by Clevedon Urban District Council. [3] In the 1930s, the council was accommodated in rooms at 12A Hill Road [4] but, its first permanent home was Claremont House on Highdale Road. The house had been commissioned as a summer retreat for the Bristol merchant, George Weare Braikenridge. [5] It was designed in the Gothic Revival style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in the mid-19th century. [6] The council acquired Claremont House, for use as its offices and meeting place, in 1938. [7]

The building, which became known as The Council House, continued to serve as the headquarters of the council for nearly four decades, [8] but ceased to be the local seat of government when Woodspring District Council was formed in Weston-super-Mare in 1974. [9] The council continued to use the building to accommodate its housing services department until, being surplus to requirements, it was sold to a developer, who converted it into apartments in the late 1980s. It is now known as Claremont Hall. [10]

The Town Hall

The current building was commissioned by the parish vestry at St Andrew's Church, as St Andrew's Primary School. It was designed in the Tudor style, built in rubble masonry and was completed in around 1860. It incorporated two schoolrooms, at right-angles, and a house for the schoolmaster. A small, one-storey extension was added to the rear schoolroom in about 1900. [1]

The school closed in 1995, [11] and, in 1999, the building was grade II listed. [1] In 2001, it was converted into a town hall, with Clevedon Town Council relocating from its former headquarters at Clevedon Village Hall. [12]

Architecture of the Town Hall

The single-storey building is constructed of stone. The design involves an asymmetrical main frontage of four bays facing onto Old Street. The left-hand bay, which is gabled, is projected forward and fenestrated by a bi-partite mullioned window on the ground floor and by a casement window on the attic floor. There is a gabled porch to the right of the first bay and the other bays are fenestrated with bi-partite mullioned and transomed windows with pointed heads. The extension to the rear schoolroom is in brick, while its roof has visible scissor-braced trusses. [1]

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  4. ↑ "No. 33602". The London Gazette . 2 May 1930. p. 2730.
  5. ↑ Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire With the City of Bristol. 1883. p. 170.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Woodspring District Council Offices (Housing Services Department) (1312828)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  7. ↑ "Chart history of the occupiers of Claremont House, Clevedon, made by C. M. Bayliffe for the Clevedon Urban District Council". National Archives. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
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  9. ↑ Local Government Act 1972. 1972 c.70. The Stationery Office Ltd. 1997. ISBN   0-10-547072-4.
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  11. ↑ "St Andrew's CofE Infant School". UK Government. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  12. ↑ Pickstock, Heather (31 March 2021). "Historic village hall opened to help educate 'working men' to be put up for sale". Bristol Post. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
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