Union Club

The Union Club, originally a Masonic Hall, was built around 1880 with a rear wing added in 1924. The building features rusticated rubble that is coursed and squared in small blocks, topped with a Welsh slate roof. It stands two storeys high over a basement and has a six-window range, designed asymmetrically in the Greek revival style. The entrance is located in an advanced bay on the left, accessed by steps leading to a portico supported by fluted Doric columns and featuring a triglyph frieze. The entrance has paired doors with heavy raised panels. A plain string course extends across the facade at the frieze line of the portico. Tall casement windows are set in ashlar architraves with moulded aprons below, while the first-floor openings have shouldered architraves, though all but two are blind. A pediment crowns the advanced entrance and the right-hand bays, with a triglyph frieze at the eaves level and an overhanging cornice. The later rear range is constructed of brick with stone dressings, also two storeys high with an attic. It features a polished granite entrance to the left, with narrow stair windows above, and heavy rusticated voussoirs framing the high first-floor windows. The cornice above the second storey is dated "AD MCMXXIV".