Hulme Hall

BEBINGTON BOLTON ROAD SJ 3384 SE (north side) Port Sunlight 14/14 Hulme Hall 20.12.65

G.V. II

Women's dining hall, now community centre. 1901. By William and Segar Owen. Brick with stone dressings, timber- framed gables; slate roofs with tile ridges. One storey, 6 bays. Central 2 bays project under gable, as do 2 bays at each end; re-entrant porches. Stone-faced raking buttresses, some quoins, and ball finials. Double- chamfered-mullioned windows with transoms. Central 2 bays have 3-light windows under gable, the bay to left has 5- light half-canted bay window with cornice, that to right has 6-light half-centred bay window, with gable over this and abutting porch gable. End bays have bay windows, 5-light canted, with 2 transoms to left, and 4-light rectangular ones with label moulds to right. All windows have decorative leaded glazing. Left porch has 3-light window and return entrance with demi-columns, cornice and 3 elliptical-headed overlights, doors have strap hinges. Right porch similar, with gable to return. Returns have raking buttresses and 3-light windows, that to right has extension towards rear, left return had one but it has been removed. Rear has end gabled bays with elliptical-headed windows and 2 lateral stacks. Interior has 3 large rooms and through passage to left of central room. Central roof has segmental vault, the ribs carried down as piers, gabled ends with leaded glazing over decorative friezes. Other rooms similar elliptical vaults with flat margins, that to left now partitioned. Through passage has decorative friezes.

Listing NGR: SJ3375084349