Hackney Town Hall
| Hackney Town Hall | |
|
Middlesex | |
|---|---|
 Hackney Town Hall | |
| Type: | Town hall |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ34888470 |
| Location: | 51.545058, -0.056288329 |
| Town: | Hackney |
| History | |
| Address: | Mare Street |
| Built 1937 | |
| By: | Henry Vaughan Lanchester and Thomas Arthur Lodge |
| Town hall | |
| Art Deco | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Hackney Council |
Hackney Town Hall is a municipal building in Hackney, Middlesex. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]
History
The original town hall for Hackney was a private house, erected at the north end of Mare Street in 1802, which had been converted into a simple vestry office in the mid 18th century.[2][3][4]
This first town hall replaced by a building further south on Mare Street designed by Harnmack and Lambert in the Italianate style which was completed in 1866.[5] This, the second town hall, was extended at both ends in 1898.[5] It became the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney on the latter's formation in 1899.[5] After the second facility was deemed inadequate, it was demolished to make way for the current facility.[5]
The current facility, the third town hall, was built on a site just to the west of the second town hall.[5] It was designed by Henry Vaughan Lanchester and Thomas Arthur Lodge in the Art Deco style, and completed in 1937.[1] It continued to be the local seat of government after the formation of an enlarged Hackney council in 1965.
Many of the staff, who had been located in disparate departments around the area, moved to the new Hackney Service Centre in Hillman Street, designed by Hopkins Architects, in 2010.[6]
An extensive refurbishment of the town Hall to the designs of Hawkins\Brown was completed in 2017.[7][8][9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1235869: Hackney Town Hall (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1226899: The Midland Bank (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Hackney Old Town Hall: Burlington
- ↑ A History of the County of Middlesex - Volume 10 pp 101-107: Hackney: Local Government (Victoria County History)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 'London's Town Halls' (Historic England), page 72
- ↑ "Hackney Service Centre". E-Architect. https://www.e-architect.co.uk/london/hackney-service-centre. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ↑ "Hackney Town Hall". Hawkins\Brown. https://www.hawkinsbrown.com/projects/hackney-town-hall. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ↑ "Projects: Hackney town hall". Building. 23 November 2017. https://www.building.co.uk/buildings/projects-hackney-town-hall/5090762.article. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ↑ "The Civic Plunge Revisited". Twentieth Century Society. 24 March 2012. https://www.c20society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2012-2403-CivicPlungeRevisitedlowres2.pdf. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
