Assembly Rooms

This building began as a grammar school, established around 1537, shortly before the dissolution of the Abbey with which it was associated. A building occupied the site prior to 1757, possibly dating to the late 16th century and incorporating earlier fabric. The school was extended and reconstructed in the 1834. When the grammar school moved in 1877, the building was converted into assembly rooms, and it was extensively restored and extended in 1959-61 by Armstrong & Falgate.

The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Features include a plinth, dentillated eaves, and shouldered coped gables. Most of the windows are 19th-century stone mullioned casements, some renewed in concrete in 1959. The building has two storeys and a 1:3:1 bay arrangement.

A central square ashlar porch, likely dating to the 16th century, has a Tudor arched opening that was converted around 1959 into a three-light mullioned window, incorporating an inscribed tablet. Flanking the porch are three-light windows linked by a moulded string course, and above them are three more three-light windows, the central one with a label mould. A datestone inscribed "1834" is set into the central gable. Projecting gabled end bays feature Tudor arched openings; the one on the left has 19th-century double doors and an overlight, while the one on the right has a three-light window. Above these are two-light windows with label moulds.

A 1959 addition to the left has two storeys with a shallow, full-width mullioned window below a string course and a blank upper floor. At the rear are extensive single-story additions from 1959, alongside a flat-roofed stair enclosure. On the rear ground floor are a 19th-century door and mullioned window, along with a 19th-century cast iron glazing bar casement. Above, there are two larger cast iron casements.

The entrance hall contains a 1959 concrete open-well staircase. The ground floor incorporates a rendered 20th-century stone wall with a plinth and a splayed window opening converted into a cupboard, along with two blocked corner fireplaces. Later 20th-century partitions and fittings are also present. The first-floor hall has two blocked fireplaces on the rear wall. The roof is a late 20th-century exposed king post roof with struts and double purlins.