Jubilee Hall With Attached Wall To South West

NEWTON-ON-THE-MOOR NEWTON VILLAGE NU 10 NE (North side) 2/197 Jubilee Hall, with attached wall to south-west

GV II

Village hall and attached wall, dated 1887, incorporating part of C18 cottage. Hall snecked stone, with timber belfry with copper dome; wall and cottage squared stone. Pantile roofs except for Welsh slates on outshut at rear of cottage. Gabled front of hall shows boarded door with marble war memorial plaque to right. 3-light transomed window, with moulded wood surround and small-paned casements, under timber lintel with datestone in semicircular relieving arch above. Coped gable on footstones with moulded finials; at apex square bellcote on moulded corbels, with moulded corner shafts carrying swept dome with weathervane. Attached wall runs forward from left end to street front, stepping down in 3 irregular sections with pyramid-topped square piers between; gabled coping. Set back to right is 1-bay part of cottage: boarded door in chamfered surround with paired 6-pane casements on left; corniced ridge stack heightened in brick. Attached building to right is Reading Room (q.v.). 3-bay left return of hall shows 2- and 3-light transomed windows in moulded wood surrounds; similar 3-light window in rear gable-end. Interior: Early C18 panelled round arch with imposts and fluted keyblock reset as entrance to hall from cottage part, almost certainly from removed 1st floor of the house which is now the Reading Room.

Listing NGR: NU1705805336

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 21 August 2017.