1900 – Town Hall, Lynton, Devon

The foundation stone for the building was laid by on 11 May 1898, and it was designed by Read and Macdonald in the Tudor Revival style. Officially opened by Newnes on 15 August 1900. The building has a broadly symmetrical main frontage with five bays – the central bay, which was flanked by octagonal stone turrets, featured a wide elliptical moulded archway on the ground floor with stone brackets supporting a wide wooden balcony above. English Heritage has described the building in the listing details as “one of the finest Domestic Revival examples of its type in the country”. Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber on the left on the ground floor and the main hall which occupied the full width of the building on the first floor.

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