Long Eaton Town Hall

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Long Eaton Town Hall
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Long Eaton Town Hall
LocationDerby Road, Long Eaton
Coordinates 52°54′02″N1°16′20″W / 52.9005°N 1.2722°W / 52.9005; -1.2722 Coordinates: 52°54′02″N1°16′20″W / 52.9005°N 1.2722°W / 52.9005; -1.2722
Built1778
Architect Joseph Pickford
Architectural style(s) Palladian style
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameThe Hall, Derby Road
Designated22 October 1962
Reference no.1204191
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Long Eaton Town Hall is a municipal building in Derby Road, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England. The town hall, which currently serves as one of two meeting places of Erewash Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building. [1]

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History

The building was commissioned by a local gentleman farmer, John Howitt: the site he selected had been open pasture and the building became known as Long Eaton Hall. [2] It was designed by Joseph Pickford in the Palladian style, built in red brick with sandstone dressings and was completed in 1778. [1] [2]

The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Derby Road; the central bay, which slightly projected forward, featured a doorway with a fanlight on the ground floor flanked by Doric order columns, narrow sash windows and Doric order pilasters all supporting an entablature and a pediment. The stone for the door case was quarried at Horston Castle. [3] The first and second floors of the central bay were fenestrated with sash windows with architraves while the outer bays were fenestrated with sash windows surmounted by gauged brickwork. At roof level there was a modillioned cornice and a central pediment. Internally, the principal rooms were the reception rooms, one of which contained a fine marble fireplace, inlaid with Blue John stone and designed by the prisons architect, George Moneypenny. [4] The rooms on the upper floors were accessed by a main staircase which led to a first floor landing with fine wooden balusters. [1]

The building passed down the Howitt family until it was acquired by the Reverend Francis Gawthorne for use as a vicarage in 1839 and then bought by the lace manufacturers, Joseph and Thomas Fletcher, in 1873. [5] [6] Following significant population growth, largely associated with the machine factory industry, the area became an urban district in 1894. [7] The new council, which initially held its meetings in the Blue Bell Inn, [8] acquired Long Eaton Hall for use as its offices and meeting place in 1921. [9] At that time, the council also inherited some 90 paintings which Charles Sydney Howitt had left to his wife during her lifetime and to the council thereafter: many of these remained in situ on the walls of the building. [10] A bronze plaque, intended to commemorate the lives of soldiers from the Sherwood Foresters who died during the First World War, was attached to the front wall of the building shortly afterwards. [11]

The town hall continued to serve as the headquarters of the urban district council for much of the 20th century. [12] Following local government re-organisation in 1974, [13] the newly formed authority, Erewash Borough Council, split its operations between Ilkeston Town Hall and Long Eaton Town Hall. [14]

In the late 1980s, in order to provide additional accommodation in the context of the expanding responsibilities of council officers, a modern office block, with a curved aluminium and glass façade, was erected to the west of the original building. [15] The enlarged facility was officially opened by the Minister of State for Local Government and Inner Cities, Michael Portillo, on 25 April 1991. [5]

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