Moot Hall

The Moot Hall is a prominent Grade II listed. Moot hall constructing situated at the southern quit of Main Street in Keswick, Cumbria, England. It become firstly constructed in 1571, and become rebuilt in 1695; the modern constructing dates to 1813. Built of lime-washed stone and slate walling, there is a rectangular tower on the north give up with a spherical-arched doorway and a double flight of steps internal, and features what the Keswick Tourist Information Board describes as an "unusual one-surpassed clock" at the pinnacle.

Formerly a meeting building, Moot Hall incorporates a Tourist Information Centre on the ground ground, with an artwork gallery at the ground above. A moot hall is a assembly or meeting constructing, historically to determine local troubles. In Anglo-Saxon England, a low ring-shaped earthwork served as a moot hill or moot mound, wherein the elders of the hundred would meet to take decisions. Some of those acquired everlasting buildings, known as moot halls. However, many moot halls are on highly new websites inside later settlements.