LE - Town Hall
Creator: JayJayBee8
Deployed: YES
Deployed On: Feb 21, 2012
Location: N/A
First to Capture: kazrob273
Last Capture: Nov 13, 2012
Number of Captures: 4
Decimal: 52.90013 -1.27221
Degrees: 52° 54.008 -1° 16.333
Dating from 1778, Long Eaton Hall was designed in the late Palladian Style by Joseph Pickford of Derby. A red brick three-storey house with sandstone dressings and a roof of graduated Swithland slates, it is a Grade II Listed Building of special architectural interest, which was taken into consideration when a new block was added to the west side of the Hall in 1990/91.
Originally built for the Howitt family, the Hall was purchased by the Reverend Francis Gawthorne in 1839 and passed to Joseph and Thomas Fletcher in 1873. The Long Eaton District Council purchased it in 1921.
The new extension is mainly a steel framed construction with reinforced floors on the upper levels. The brickwork is Butterley Thurcroft Lindrick Red Rustics and the roof of Burlington blue slates matches the Swithland slates of the original building, which are no longer available. The façade of curved aluminium members glazed with tinted reflective glass give the building a more modern look. The formal opening of the building took place on April 25th 1991, by Michael Portillo M.P. who was at the time the Minister of State for Local Government and Inner Cities.
Hint: Bench, magnetic, under
Originally built for the Howitt family, the Hall was purchased by the Reverend Francis Gawthorne in 1839 and passed to Joseph and Thomas Fletcher in 1873. The Long Eaton District Council purchased it in 1921.
The new extension is mainly a steel framed construction with reinforced floors on the upper levels. The brickwork is Butterley Thurcroft Lindrick Red Rustics and the roof of Burlington blue slates matches the Swithland slates of the original building, which are no longer available. The façade of curved aluminium members glazed with tinted reflective glass give the building a more modern look. The formal opening of the building took place on April 25th 1991, by Michael Portillo M.P. who was at the time the Minister of State for Local Government and Inner Cities.
Hint: Bench, magnetic, under