Premises Occupied By Tramps Night Club

The building is a Congregationalist church, dating from 1858, and later converted into a nightclub around 1980-1990. It was likely designed by Poulton and Woodman. The structure is built of Cotswold stone ashlar over brick, with pinkish-red brick to the rear, and has a pyramidal slate roof with a finial and a right-hand stack with a cornice and decorative pots. It is rectangular in plan, with an apse, and is built in a Classical style.

The building appears as a single tall storey, though it is described as two storeys to the front facade, with three bays and outer wings. The front facade is stepped twice, with a central projection. A bowed tetrastyle Corinthian portico dominates the central bay, with Doric pilasters to the responds and surmounted by a pediment with acroteria. The columns stand on a tall plinth, interrupted by a horseshoe-shaped flight of steps leading to a central entrance. The entrance has 12-panel double doors with a panelled overlight within a Caernarvon-arched surround, featuring scrolled corbel brackets. A continuous band above this is decorated with panels incorporating a lozenge motif, below round-arched windows with circular glazing bars, imposts, architraves, and keystones. The outer bays have large piers with pyramidal caps and flights of steps leading to 6-panel doors, each with a blind fanlight set within a tooled architrave, pulvinated frieze, and cornice, surmounted by a balustrade with bulbous balusters. The upper stage features round-arched windows with imposts, architraves, and keystones. The wings have Caernarvon-arched openings; the left one has a 4-panel door, while the right one has a replacement door with panels above. A continuous cornice with acanthus modillions runs along the top, and a parapet with a cornice completes the facade.

The interior includes an apse with two Corinthian columns in antis with pilaster reveals, and a trefoil pulpit. A bowed balcony features ornate cast-iron railings supported on brackets, and retains its original benches. The ceiling is domed, with ribs supported by corbels.

This is a distinguished example of Nonconformist church architecture in a robust Classical style.