Century Hall And Front Wall With Railings

Century Hall and the front wall with railings is a church hall built around 1900, featuring red brick construction that is partly roughcast, with ashlar sandstone and terracotta dressings, and roofs made of slate and red tiles. The building has two storeys, with the lower storey situated below street level, and is designed in an eclectic Art Nouveau style with four bays.

On the left side, steps lead up to a half-timbered porch that has later double doors beneath a Tudor arch, supported by a brattished tie-beam and gable with V-struts, topped with a tiled roof. The fourth bay also features steps leading to a rectangular porch with a narrow door, tile-hung sides, and a swept hipped roof. The lower floor bays two and three are illuminated by porthole windows framed in architraves with keystones. A string course runs below the roughcast upper storeys, which contain two semi-circular windows with wooden mullions and central transom lights, adorned with terracotta voussoirs and keystones.

The upper section has two roof dormers with three-light casements, each topped with swept tiled roofs and pole finials. The upper windows are fitted with leaded lights that feature heart motifs in red glass. The main roof is hipped with swept eaves, showcasing a boarded soffit supported by shaped brackets, and is finished with ventilated terracotta ridge tiles and pole finials. An arcaded cupola with a swept lead roof and finial crowns the structure.

On the left return, the lower floor is lit by large four-pane sash windows with transom lights, set under cambered arches with double keystones. The upper floor mirrors this with a group of four round-arched windows in terracotta surrounds. The right return is similar in design.

Inside, the lower wall is plain, while the upper hall features two round-arched recesses in the rear wall and three decorative roof trusses. The front wall and railings consist of square brick piers topped with domed ashlar caps, with a coped plinth wall supporting railings that include Art Nouveau scrollwork panels, along with seven additional panels to the left. The rear-left corner of Century Hall is connected to Ashbourne Methodist Church on Church Street.