County Hall, Beverley

County Hall is a municipal building in Cross Street, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.County Hall, which is the headquarters of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, is a Grade II listed building.[1] The design involved a main frontage with eleven bays facing onto Cross Street; the left-hand section of five bays, which was symmetrical, featured an elaborately carved stone doorway on the ground floor flanked by composite order columns, with three tall mullion windows on the first floor; the right-hand section of six bays, which was asymmetrical, featured a porch flanked by Doric order columns and topped with a pediment containing the county coat of arms, with tall mullion windows on the first and second floors.[1] Internally, the principal room was the council chamber[5] which contained fine furniture carved by the wood carver and cabinet maker, James Elwell.[1] A large modern office block, intended to create additional facilities for the county council, was built on Champney Road and opened in 1983.
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