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from 1974, until Stockton Council decided to sell the building to a developer, Python Properties, in January 2010. After the sale to Python fell through in May 2011, Stockton Council carried out a consultation on its future use in September 2011. The consultation resulted in Thornaby Town Council,
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in 1892, civic leaders decided to commission a dedicated town hall. The site they selected was a developing area occupied by some clay pits in what had previously been close to the Mandale Marshes just south of
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on both floors. However, Nikolaus Pevsner said that the town hall exhibited "a totally undistinguished design on a visually most unsuitable site", in his 1933 The North Riding (Buildings of England) book. The
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on the first floor; the Railway Terrace elevation had two bays with windows in a similar style to the Mandale Road elevation, but the bays further along the street displayed conventional
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and donated by the first mayor of the town, Alderman William Anderson, was started on 27 January 1892. Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber and the mayor's parlour.
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The building continued to serve as the headquarters of Thornaby Borough Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government when the short-lived
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main frontage at the junction of Mandale Road and Railway Terrace; the corner section featured a double window on the ground floor, an
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which had been formed in 1995, agreeing to acquire the building in May 2012 and completing the transaction in November 2012.
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The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the chairman of the South Stockton
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In anticipation of the proposed merger of Thornaby and South Stockton into the
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An extensive programme of renovation works costing £900,000, funded by the
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was formed in 1967. It then remained largely unused, in the ownership of
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above. The Mandale road elevation featured a doorway with
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Municipal building in Thornaby, North Yorkshire, England
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Thornaby-on-Tees
54°33′30″N 1°18′10″W / 54.5583°N 1.3027°W / 54.5583; -1.3027
Renaissance style
Listed Building
Thornaby Town Hall is located in North Yorkshire
Thornaby-on-Tees
North Yorkshire
municipal borough
municipal borough
South Stockton railway station
local board of health
West Hartlepool
Renaissance style
chamfered
oriel window
cupola
weather vane
brackets
entablature
fanlights
sash windows
quarter-chiming
Potts of Leeds
County Borough of Teesside
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
National Lottery Heritage Fund


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