Assembly Rooms And Railings And Gatepier To South West

CLEOBURY MORTIMER

SO6775 CHURCH STREET 582-1/13/49 (North side) 15/03/74 Assembly Rooms and railings and gatepier to south-west

GV II

Market hall, then assembly rooms with first-floor reading room, now civic hall. Dated 1842, remodelled and upper floor added 1875. Ashlar, with weathered string course, and hoodmoulds and sills to south and west sides and coursed stone rubble to rear. Blue engineering brick at rear extension. Slate roof with late C19 decorative bargeboards and fascia. Simple 2-room plan with gable to street, and rear end-extension. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. South gable with tripartite 1/1:2/2:1/1 first-floor sash under hoodmould. Ground-floor c1875 wood mullion and transom window with multi-pane lights set in 4-centred arched opening with chamfered reveals, and hoodmould with defaced label stops. Dated crest plaque in gable. Memorial plaque to Cleobury Volunteers, c1900, to left. West return side: 2-storey, 4-window range, with outer bays narrower, fitted with 2/2 sashes under hoodmoulds to first floor, and 3 ground-floor windows similar to front gable. 4-centred entrance arch to right with inset iron grill giving into lobby. Rear: covered by stone lean-to and late C19 2-storey tiled gabled extension of engineering brick and coursed rubble, formerly used to house the town's fire tender. Gatepier of sandstone ashlar with octagonal shaft, chamfered plinth and pyramid cap with cornice, attached to assembly rooms by a 2 metre length of spear-head iron railings. Gatepier one of a pair at west end of churchyard wall (qv). INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO6737175764