Loftus Town Hall

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Loftus Town Hall
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Loftus Town Hall
LocationWater Lane, Loftus
Coordinates 54°33′13″N0°53′08″W / 54.5535°N 0.8855°W / 54.5535; -0.8855 Coordinates: 54°33′13″N0°53′08″W / 54.5535°N 0.8855°W / 54.5535; -0.8855
Built1879
Architect Edward Robert Robson
Architectural style(s) Gothic Revival style
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameTown Hall
Designated27 February 1987
Reference no.1136562
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Loftus Town Hall is a municipal building in Water Lane in Loftus, North Yorkshire, England. The structure, which accommodates the offices and meeting place of Loftus Town Council, is a grade II listed building. [1]

History

Following significant industrial growth, largely associated with iron mining industry, [2] a local board was established in Loftus in 1876. In this context, Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Earl of Zetland, whose seat was at Aske Hall, decided to commission a town hall for the town. [3] The new building was designed by Edward Robert Robson in the Gothic Revival style, built by Thomas Dickinson of Saltburn-by-the-Sea in ashlar stone at a cost of £4,500 and was completed in 1879. [4] [5] [6]

The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of two bays facing onto Water Lane. The left-hand bay featured a pointed doorway with a hood mould on the ground floor, and a cross-window with ogee-shaped heads on the first floor. Above the left-hand bay, there was a two-stage octagonal tower with a single window with tracery in the first stage, and clock faces in the second stage, all surmounted by a castellated parapet, a conical roof and a finial. Although clock faces were installed on the north, east and west elevations, there was no clock face to the south as residents in that direction refused to subscribe to the cost. [7] The hour-striking Town Hall clock was manufactured by Potts & Sons of Leeds. [8] The right-hand bay was fenestrated by three cross-windows with ogee-shaped heads on the ground floor and by a large mullioned and transomed window flanked by two smaller windows on the first floor, all surmounted by a gable. Internally, the principal room was the council chamber on the ground floor. [1]

The area became an urban district, with the town hall as its meeting place, in 1894. [9] Rooms in the building were requisitioned for military use during the First and Second World Wars. [7] The urban district council acquired ownership of the town hall from the Zetland family for £2,000 in 1948, [10] but it ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Langbaurgh Borough Council was formed in 1974. [11]

After local authority budget cuts threatened closure of the building, Loftus Town Council took over responsibility for the maintenance of the building in 1992 and secured money Heritage Lottery Fund for its refurbishment. [7]

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References

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  2. ↑ Page, William (1923). "'Parishes: Loftus', in A History of the County of York North Riding:". London: British History Online. pp. 385–388. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "Loftus". Bulmer's Directory. 1890. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "1879 – New Town Hall, Loftus, Yorkshire". Archiseek. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  5. ↑ Town Hall, Loftus-in-Cleveland. Vol. 36. The Building News and Engineering Journal. 30 May 1879. p. 600.
  6. ↑ "Loftus". Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 "Loftus Town Hall". Redcar and Cleveland Council. Archived from the original on 26 September 2006.
  8. ↑ Potts, Michael S. (2006). Potts of Leeds: Five Generations of Clockmakers. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Mayfield Books. p. 73.
  9. ↑ "Loftus UD". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  10. ↑ "Beautiful hidden gems and unique reasons to champion Redcar and Cleveland's 'most deprived area'". Gazette Live. 4 March 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
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