Loftus Town Hall
Loftus Town Hall is a municipal building in Water Lane in Loftus, North Yorkshire, England. The structure, which accommodates the offices and meeting place of Loftus Town Council, is a grade II listed building. History Following significant industrial growth, largely associated with the iron mining industry, a local board was established in Loftus in 1876. In this context, Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Earl of Zetland, whose seat was at Aske Hall, decided to commission a town hall for the town. The new building was designed by Edward Robert Robson in the Gothic Revival style, built by Thomas Dickinson of Saltburn-by-the-Sea in ashlar stone at a cost of £4,500 and was completed in 1879. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of two bays facing onto Water Lane. The left-hand bay featured a pointed doorway with a hood mould on the ground floor, and a cross-window with ogee-shaped heads on the first floor. Above the left-hand bay, there was a two-stage octagonal tower with a single window with tracery in the first stage, and clock faces in the second stage, all surmounted by a castellated parapet, a conical roof and a finial. Although clock faces were installed on the north, east and