This three-storey stone building is rectangular in plan with a slate pitched roof. The stonework is exposed on the upper two storeys as cut blocks with random horizontal coursing. The ground floor is cement rendered to window sill level of first floor. There is a regular deployment of five vertically proportioned windows at each floor although the middle of the ground floor is designed as a semi-circular headed front entrance. The fenestration is rather modest, the only adornment being a plain cement rendered frame around the upper floor windows and a straight rectangular molding at the top of the ground floor rendering panel. There are no particularly significant features to the building either internally or externally. For the most part details are rather poorly handled, an example being the traversing of the main facade by electrical wiring clipped to the masonry, a single angle bracket light, a token flag-pole etc. As a town hall the building clearly has civic significance and it occupies a prominent position in an area which has already recommended to have a listing as a group related to its function.
The above description was prepared prior to the creation of Registered Building and Conservation Area legislation.
The structure has since been placed on the Protected Buildings Register (No. 17).
The building has served a variety of uses since being constructed for domestic use, including as the town hall, and later as offices. It is currently in commercial use.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from the vicinity of Manannan's Chair by CH Cowley.
The description relates to OS Field no. 0662, which is centred at the grid reference provided.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Ringfort. The now-discontinuous embankment of this plough-damaged site indicates a structure originally about 35m in diameter. Only the western and northern arc of the bank now survive, the former incorporated into a field boundary. Although the bank to south and east are largely ploughed down, the raised platform of the interior is still apparent.
The surrounding field has produced several worked flints.
3 names listed by year of death; First World War. Grey-green slate with inscriptions in gold. The memorial was unveiled by Sir William Fry, Governor of the Isle of Man, on Thursday 25 May 1922 in its original location of the Old Courthouse. It was moved to its present location in May 1979 when the Old Courthouse was demolished.
Memorial designed by Archibald Knox and executed by Mr Thomas Quayle of Douglas.
A record for the Manx Northern Railway which was a 3-foot gauge railway line which operated from 1877. In 1904, it amalgamated with the Isle of Man Railway. It ran from St John's to Ramsey, via Kirk Michael, Ballaugh and Sulby. The railway closed to passengers in 1968, and was dismantled in the 1970s.
A record for the Manx Northern Railway which was a 3-foot gauge line which operated from 1877. In 1904, it amalgamated with the Isle of Man Railway. It ran between St John's to Ramsey from grid reference SC 272819 to SC 448946, via Michael. The railway closed to passengers in 1968.
The site of the terminus station of the Manx Northern Railway, which is now built over. This was a 3-foot narrow-gauge line, completed in 1877 and amalgamated with the Isle of Man Railway in 1904. It ran from St John's to Ramsey, via Kirk Michael, Ballaugh and Sulby. The railway closed to passengers in 1968, and was dismantled in the 1970s.
This former warehouse was built in 1866 by Richard Rowe, the Captain of the Laxey Mines and was used as a grain store for the Laxey Glen Flour Mill and also for storing coal and corn. It was used as a smoking pipe factory from the 1960s until closure in the early 21st century.
The four storey building is constructed of stone with a hipped slate roof. The rectangular plan has been retained but otherwise the building has been completely renovated. The north facade has been left in approximately its original expression. The other elevations have been altered due to modernisation, particularly the main entrance from the quay. With the replacement of the original roof the attic space has been finished and a series of roof lights installed with superimposed ventilators. The four storeys of the main building have been retained. The building is set directly on the quayside with no enclosing parcel of land. No interior inspection has been made. The present state of repair appears excellent. The building represents a fine example of Manx stone industrial building.
First World War One of the ceramic First World War Centenary poppies that were laid out at the Tower of London in 2014, in a glazed wooden case with sloping top on the underside of which is laser-cut an inscription. Positioned on a shelf immediately below the First World War and Second World War memorial tablets in St Columbas Church, Arbory.
This rounded granite boulder was found at Bemaken Friary (see also Manx Cross 004). Its precise findspot is unknown, but a local tradition reports that it was found in a field bank on the boundary between the Friary and the neighbouring farm of Ballaclague lying to the north-west.
The stone bears a simple ogham inscription which spells the name, 'Macleog', from which the modern Manx surname 'Clague' is derived.
The stone is now displayed at the Manx Museum.
