The Briggs Memorial Hall

CASTLEFORD WHITWOOD COMMON LANE SE42SW (north side) 4/12 The Briggs Memorial 14.4.1975 Hall (formerly listed ast Castleford Briggs 5 Memorial Hall) GV II Meeting hall. c1907, by C. F. A. Voysey for Henry Briggs and Son. Roughcast render on brick, tiled roof. Small rectangular 5-bay building in Arts and Crafts style, with simple battered buttresses. The east gable end has a canted flat-roofed porch with a doorway in the centre and a simple rectangular window in each side; above the porch a rectangular sandstone plaque lettered:- IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR CURRER BRIGGS BORN 1855 DIED 1906 and above this a large lunette window with rectilinear-pattern glazing bars, and a hoodmould with run-out ends. The side walls have smaller but similar lunette windows at the top of each bay. Roof with swept eaves, barge-boarded at the gable. Attached at each rear corner is a small single-cell building of square section, with similar buttresses, a doorway in the front wall and a small window in the side (probably toilets).

Listing NGR: SE4055624340