Stoke Newington Town Hall


Stoke Newington Town Hall is a municipal building in Church Street, Stoke Newington, London. It is a Grade II listed building.

History

The building was commissioned to replace an aging facility in Milton Grove. The site chosen had previously been occupied by a 15th-century Manor House and, later, by a row of Georgian houses.
The new building was designed by John Reginald Truelove and was completed in 1937. It consisted of a curved section of municipal offices, which contains the council chamber, built in the Renaissance style to the west and a rectangular assembly hall with four huge Doric columns flanked by pavilions built in the Classical style to the east.
In the Second World War, the building served as the local civil defence headquarters and was heavily camouflaged to protect it from enemy bombing during the London Blitz.
The town hall served as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington but ceased to be the local seat of government after the formation of the London Borough of Hackney in 1965. The assembly hall, which has a sprung Canadian maple dance floor, was often used as a dance facility until, due to disrepair, it was closed in 2004.
The building was extensively refurbished and restored to a design by Hawkins\Brown in 2010: the quality of the work was recognised by the Worshipful Company of Carpenters in that year's Wood Awards.