Former Masonic Hall

The building is a former Masonic Hall dating from 1885, designed by Paley & Austin, but incorporating later 17th-century fabric in the rear sections. The front elevation is of squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, while the rear elevation is of coursed rubble. It has a pitched roof and stands two and three storeys high with a basement.

The front elevation is executed in a restrained Jacobean style, featuring a deep plinth, a sill band on the first floor, and a band with a parapet above the first-floor windows. A doorway is located to the right of the facade. The first floor is symmetrical, with a central canted oriel window beneath a gable, flanked on each side by a window. All these windows have a stone mullion and two transoms, all chamfered. The oriel window has a panelled dado and is supported by a heavy corbel which springs from a shallow buttress. To the left of the buttress on the ground floor is a pair of two-light windows, and to the right is the doorway, which has a battlemented lintel and a two-light window to its right. The rear gable wall has three two-light windows with chamfered mullions, positioned at differing levels.

The interior has been extensively modernised but retains a probable Victorian-period fireplace on the ground floor. A late 17th-century dogleg staircase rises from the basement to the upper floor, with closed strings, rectangular newels, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail. A blocked mullion window can be found on the staircase between the ground and first floor, along with two more in a WC. The former temple was located in the front first-floor room and contains a well-executed decorated plaster ceiling in blue and white, with circular plaster wall plaques in relief depicting Masonic insignia. A decorative timber entrance door, giving access to both the temple and landing, is on the rear wall, with knockers for each. Above the door is an organist's balcony beneath a decorated arch, now blocked off at the rear. Upper rooms retain some early timber beams.