Students Union Building To High Melton College

SE50SW HIGH MELTON DONCASTER ROAD (south side) 7/90 Students Union building to High Melton College 5.6.68 (formerly listed as Village Hall and School)

GV II

Village hall. Early C20. Pebble-dashed walls, graduated Westmorland slate roof. T-shaped plan with gabled, 2-storey, single-bay central block having stair projection to right; single-storey side-wings to rear. In Arts and Crafts style. Central doorcase feature with double doors and overlight beneath moulded basket arch of herringbone- tooled ashlar; architrave steps up over 2 flattened-ogee panels; consoled cornice carved with oak leaves and roses. Flanking, round-headed, single-light windows have moulded, quoined surrounds and dripstones. 5-light window over door has recessed, cavetto-moulded, ogee-headed lights; dripstone. Tall windows to stair projection on right. Carved kneelers set on cornices which return on side walls, moulded gable copings. Wing set back to left has two, transomed 2-light windows beneath shaped gable; door on right with moulded surround, carved lintel and bracketed hood. Wing set back on right has door only; battered wallstone stalk.,with cornice to rear. Left return: projection with double-transomed, 3-light window with cornice beneath Diocletian window and shaped gable; flanking round-headed windows of 2 lights with transom. Right return: angled stair projection with 3-light window, otherwise as left return.

Listing NGR: SE5093601928