| Old Town Hall, Great Dunmow | |
|---|---|
 Old Town Hall, Great Dunmow | |
| Location | Market Place, Great Dunmow |
| Coordinates | 51°52′22″N0°21′44″E / 51.8729°N 0.3623°E |
| Built | 1578 |
| Architectural style(s) | Elizabethan style |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | Old Town Hall |
| Designated | 16 February 1984 |
| Reference no. | 1142444 |
  Shown in Essex | |
The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Great Dunmow, Essex, England. The structure, which is now in retail use, is a Grade II listed building. [1]
The town hall was commissioned as a guildhall following the incorporation of the borough in 1555. [2] [3] [4] It was designed in the Elizabethan style, built using timber-framing with plaster infill, and was completed in around 1578. [5] [6] [7]
The first floor was then re-built in the mid-19th century. [8] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of two bays facing onto the Market Place. The left hand bay, which was narrow and recessed, contained a doorway with a rectangular fanlight on the ground floor, and a small bi-partite window on the first floor. The right hand bay was fenestrated by a timber framed window on the ground floor, and by a prominent oriel window on the first floor, which was jettied out over the pavement and extensively decorated by pargeting. The right hand bay was surmounted by a gable containing a bargeboard and a clock face. At roof level, there was a cupola, containing a bell, [9] which was surmounted by a pyramid-shaped roof and a weather vane. Internally, the principal room was the assembly room on the first floor. [1]
The assembly room became the venue for public meetings in the town and also served as the regular meeting place of the local masonic lodge. [10] However, the borough council, which had also met in the town hall, was abolished under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883. [11] The building was then acquired by a syndicate of investors for commercial use in 1888. [6] Meanwhile, Foakes Hall, which was financed by a legacy from Alice Foakes, was erected in Stortford Road and was officially opened in September 1934; it subsequently became the regular meeting place of Great Dunmow Parish Council. [12] By the second half of the 20th century, the old town hall was serving as the offices of a firm of estate agents. [13] [14] [15]
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