Black and white photograph showing the façade of the Hippodrome, later known as the Civic Theatre, in Darlington. Taken from across the road, it shows a red brick façade with terracotta dressings in a Baroque style. Ionic pilasters at first floor level frame a symmetrical entrance pavilion, which carries a scrolly gable and semicircular lunette with exaggerated voussoirs. Over the gable can be seen a pyramidal roof with iron cresting. A decorated iron and glass canopy covers the main entrance and disappears around the corner in the background to the right. To the left of the main façade is a block made up of three bays with the two to the right identical and bearing semicircular windows and curved gables set into an attic. The bay to the left is narrower and contains the stage door at its base. Signage at street-level advertises a performance by the ‘Halle Orchestra’ featuring ‘George Weldon’.