NHER 47784 (Building record) - Urban District Council Offices, New Road

September 1972. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Formerly The Cedane. Probably late 18th century, with mid 19th-century alterations and additions, two storey, mainly rendered. Added grey brick wing on right. Central six-panel door with fielded upper panels in arched entrance with stone case with pilasters and segmental pediment, arched window at first floor above with archivolt and key. Three sash windows at first floor, now with centre glazing bars only and three-light mullion and transom casement in wing, left. Slate roof. Wing, right, of grey brick, first floor stone splay bay window on arches on columns, at ground floor, with foliate caps."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Aldridge (NLA), 22 November 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 June 2021.

2022. Dendrochronological Survey.
Dendrochronological analysis of two samples taken from an oak truss of principal rafters that potentially represents survivals from an earlier roof incorporated in later work.
These timbers were shown to be coeval but the site sequence couldn't be securely matched with the reference chronologies. Radiocarbon dating was therefore subsequently undertaken on five single-ring samples from a single timber, with wiggle-matching of these results suggesting the final ring of the site master chronology formed in cal AD 1648-1668 (at 95% probability). This is consistent with the tentative dating provided by the dendrochronology, which suggested the site master chronology spans AD 1589-1656. Together, the two techniques suggest the timber had been felled in the period AD 1657-1680 – potentially indicating this building was somewhat earlier than previously thought. It does though remain a possibility that the timbers sampled had been reused from an earlier building elsewhere – although no obvious signs of reuse were noted at the time of sampling.
See report (S2) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 August 2025.