Century Hall And Front Wall With Railings

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ASHBOURNE STATION ROAD SK 1746 822-0/1/10002 Century Hall and front wall with railings II GV Church hall and front wall with railings. c1900. Red brick, partly roughcast; ashlar sandstone and terracotta dressings; slate and red tile roofs. 2 storeys (lower storey below street level), 4 bays. Eclectic Art Nouveau style. Steps on left rise to ½-timbered porch with later double doors beneath Tudor arch, brattished tie-beam and gable with V-struts; tile roof. Bay 4 also has steps to rectangular porch with narrow door, tile-hung sides and swept hipped roof. Lower floor bays 2 and 3 lit by porthole windows in architraves with keystones. String course below roughcast upper storeys: 2 semi-circular windows with wooden mullions and central transom lights; terracotta voussoirs with keystones. 2 roof dormers with 3-light casements; swept tiled roofs with pole finials. Upper windows have leaded lights with heart motifs in red glass. Main roof is hipped with swept eaves having boarded soffit on shaped brackets; ventilated terracotta ridge tiles with pole finials; arcaded cupola with swept lead roof and finial. Left return: lower floor lit by large 4-pane sashes with transom lights under cambered arches with double keystones; upper floor with group of 4 round-arched windows in terracotta surrounds. Right return is similar. Interior: plain lower wall; upper hall with 2 round-arched recesses in rear wall and 3 decorative roof trusses. Front wall and railings: square brick piers with domed ashlar caps; coped plinth wall to railings with Art Nouveau Scrollwork panels. 7 further panels to left. Rear-left corner of Century Hall is linked to Ashbourne Methodist Church, Church Street (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SK1785446548