Tamworth Assembly Rooms

Heritage listing

Details TAMWORTH SK2004SE CORPORATION STREET 670-1/7/66 (East side) 09/11/72 Assembly Rooms GV II Assembly rooms. 1889. For Tamworth Corporation. Brick with ashlar dressings; slate roof. Right-angle plan. Italianate style. 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range with 3-window centre breaking forward under segmental pediment. 3 entrances with angle pilasters, frieze and cornice, narrow overlights to panelled doors. 1st floor has round-headed windows with archivolts and small-paned glazing; attic has architraved windows with imbricated friezes and cornices. Ashlar plinth, brick channelled rustication to ground floor with platt band over; 1st floor sill band and impost band; brick angle pilasters and top frieze and cornice, pedimented gable broken by attic with pilasters with foliate capitals, entablature with date and pediment with boldly carved town arms with mermaid supporters. 7-window right return has similar 1st floor over narrow lean-to projection with entrance to front with rusticated brick piers, cornice and stone-coped parapet; paired panelled doors; left return similar, brick channelled rustication to ground floor. Rear has narrower gabled wing with return and rear lean-to outshuts and small stacks. Listing NGR: SK2069804114 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 386472 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.