Historic houses · North East England
Stanhope Town Hall
Stanhope Town Hall in England North East, United Kingdom.
Des Blenkinsopp — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Stanhope Town Hall is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Stanhope Town Hall is a former municipal building on Front Street, Stanhope, a town in County Durham, England. The building is not currently in use and is being marketed for sale.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
In 1846, the parish leaders in Stanhope, led by the Rector, the Reverend William Darnell, decided to commission a town hall for the parish and to finance it by public subscription. The site they selected, on the north side of Front Street in the west end of the town, was held in copyhold by the Diocese of Durham, and the Bishop of Durham, Edward Maltby, donated it to the parish. The new building was designed in the Victorian style, built in rubble masonry and was completed in 1849. The design involved a main block of five bays facing onto Front Street. It was fenestrated by a mixture of bi-partite and tri-partite mullioned windows on the ground floor and by five cross-windows on the first…
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- Coordinates
- 54.7489, -2.0104
- District
- County Durham
- Parish
- Stanhope
- Postcode
- DL13 2NQ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Established
- 1849
Sources
- wikidata: Q124361471 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Stanhope Town Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Stanhope Town Hall?
- Stanhope Town Hall is in North-East England, United Kingdom (postcode DL13 2NQ), in the parish of Stanhope.
- When was Stanhope Town Hall built?
- Built or established in 1849.
- How do I get to Stanhope Town Hall?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode DL13 2NQ. It sits within the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency.