1910 – Former Shire Hall, Reading, Berkshire

Designed by Septimus Warwick and H. Austen Hall in the Queen Anne style, and opened as the Shire Hall in 1911. A symmetrical main frontage with five bays with the ground floor faced in Portland stone. The building accommodated the administrative staff of Berkshire County Council while full council meetings were held in the assize courts next door. In 1981 the council moved to a new Shire Hall at Shinfield Park. Now a boutique hotel. Illustration published in The Building News, July 15th 1910.