Upper Weardale Town Hall

In the early 1860s, parish leaders decided to establish a town hall in the village, primarily to accommodate the weekly market. The site chosen had been the village green. Construction work on the building began in 1865. It was designed in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1868. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto Hood Street with a gable above. The central bay contained a canted bay window supporting a balustraded balcony; there was French door with an architrave and a triangular pediment on the first floor. The outer bays contained doorways with architraves and triangular pediments. Internally, the principal room was…