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 extends around the exposed corner, which is in shot in the foreground to the right. A sign at street-level advertises a performance by the ‘Halle Orchestra’ featuring ‘George Weldon’. To the left of the main façade is another 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.