Gardens · London
Tower Hamlets Town Hall
Tower Hamlets Town Hall — a garden in england-london, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Dog-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Tower Hamlets Town Hall is a garden of interest in england-london, 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
Tower Hamlets Town Hall is a municipal facility on Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London. The new structure, which has been commissioned as the headquarters of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, incorporates the façade of the old Royal London Hospital which is a Grade II listed building.
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Background
History
The original hospital was designed by Boulton Mainwaring in the neoclassical style, built in yellow brick and opened in September 1757. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Whitechapel Road; the central section of five bays featured an arcade of round headed windows on the ground floor, a mullioned window with tracery spanning the first and second floors in the left hand bay and sash windows on the first and the second floors in the other four bays. In February 2015 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council acquired the old hospital for £9 million and announced plans to convert it into a new "civic centre" to which it would relocate from its existing…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.5188, -0.0606
- District
- Tower Hamlets
- Parish
- Tower Hamlets, unparished area
- Postcode
- E1 1FR
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney
- Established
- 1757
- Official site
- www.museumslondon.org
Sources
- wikidata: Q108911633 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Tower Hamlets Town Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Tower Hamlets Town Hall?
- Tower Hamlets Town Hall is in London, United Kingdom (postcode E1 1FR), in the parish of Tower Hamlets, unparished area.
- When was Tower Hamlets Town Hall built?
- Built or established in 1757.
- How do I get to Tower Hamlets Town Hall?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode E1 1FR. It sits within the Bethnal Green and Stepney parliamentary constituency.