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new building; however, the process of acquiring new land and the council members voting on the preferred locations, made for a protracted eight year gap before work was started. In the eventuality, the building was designed by Walter
Brierley alone, who by that time was the favoured architect of the North Riding County Council. Work on the new offices started in 1903, with
372:. The temporary hospital had over 60 beds and over 1,600 patients were nursed during that time. In May 1941, the town of Northallerton was subject to a bombing run by the Luftwaffe. Several incendiary devices were dropped on the town, one of which caused a fire in County Hall though it was soon extinguished with no lasting damage.
325:. Racecourse Lane was the finishing straight of the track and the big grandstand was located where County Hall is now. The racing died off gradually after the railway was built on its south western corner which had restricted its space. The last race meet was held in 1880; after this, the racecourse was abandoned.
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which was to be part of the new county of North
Yorkshire. However, it was decided to retain County Hall as the headquarters purely on grounds of cost; it was £7 million cheaper to enhance County Hall than to move to new premises. The main building was Grade II* listed in June 1987 and was subject to
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Council had recognised the need to replace their offices in East Road in the town and the twelve other sites that they occupied that were scattered throughout Northallerton. In 1895, Walter Brierley and John Demaine were employed to be the architects for the
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and the main entrance into the grounds that the hall is set in, has been described as "impressive" as it is lined with hedging, trees and decorative ponds. The interior of the building included
Derbyshire Limestone, and white Sicilian and black Belgian marble in the entrance floor. When built, the
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Yorkshire County Council, particularly from the newly transferred non-industrial areas of the
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windows and a cupola that hid an early air conditioning system. The building had extra sections added in 1916, 1930 and 1940 and many other ancillary buildings were added to the site.
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