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The L-shaped building has a four-storey north wing, housing offices, and a two-storey east wing, with the council chamber on the ground floor, and committee rooms above. Between the blocks is a link containing the main entrance, and there is a 1980s restaurant in the angle of the wings. In the
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in 1959. The council chamber block is built of white stone panels, and the roof is partly covered in copper. The office block has a concrete-covered steel frame, clad in slate, and hardwood windows with steel panels below. The building was
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Civic leaders therefore decided to commission a more substantial building. The site they selected, on Ashby Road, was open land. Construction of the new building started in 1960. It was designed by Charles B. Pearson and Partners in the
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in England. The building served as the headquarters of Scunthorpe Municipal Borough Council and later of North Lincolnshire Council, but is now used as a university campus. It is a Grade II
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Following significant population growth in the late 19th century, largely associated with the steel industry, the town appointed a
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in 1936, the council's responsibilities grew and, by the mid-1950s, the existing premises were inadequate.
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in 1894, and, in this context, civic leaders established council offices, along with a
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entrance hall is a 4th-century Romano-British mosaic of the goddess of agriculture,
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for most of the rest of the century and remained the headquarters of the new
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The civic centre continued to serve as the headquarters of the
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Urban District in 1919 and advancement to the status of
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Municipal building in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
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Scunthorpe
53°34′52″N 0°39′20″W / 53.5811°N 0.6555°W / 53.5811; -0.6555
Modernist style
Listed Building
Scunthorpe Civic Centre is located in Lincolnshire
Scunthorpe
Lincolnshire
listed building

local board of health
urban district
Carnegie library
Frodingham
municipal borough
modernist style
borough council
unitary authority
North Lincolnshire Council
North Lindsey College
University of Lincoln
Ceres
Winterton
grade II listed



Historic England
"North Lincolnshire Council Offices formerly Scunthorpe Civic Centre (1323702)"
National Heritage List for England

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