Budworth Hall

TL 5503 ONGAR HIGH STREET (W side) 8/107 Budworth Hall

GV II

Public Hall. c.1886. Built by Fothergill Watson of Nottingham with tower added c.1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Given to the Town by the Budworth family of Greensted Hall. Red brick built, with plain red tiled roof. Of complex plan, the rear of 3 storeys with ½ hipped roofs acroterian to ridge and projecting eaves. 2 storey forward crosswing to left with ½ hipped roof and matching details to rear roof. This range with a 4 light oriel supported by timber brackets to first floor and matching bay window to ground floor. There is a ½ glazed door under a red tiled porch supported by brackets, and a rear extension porch. Plaque - "Erected 1886" over bay window. Batten design to first floor and various decorative bands, which continue throughout the building. The Tower to the right of two stages, with hipped, red tile roof, decorative cast iron ridge and weathervane. Clock face to each face below the projecting eaves. 3 light window below clock to Bansons Lane face and two lights to High Street; with segmental arches and heads. Hipped red tiled porch, supported by 4 curved brackets. Double boarded doors with segmental heads and decorative iron hinges. The clock faces set in square recesses with moulded brick infill. Various moulded bands. Stone name plaque to centre front with commemorative plaque below. There is an outshot red tiled roof between crosswing and tower. To the right of the tower, and set back is a small turret, with octangonal spire and finial, moulded brick "Tudor" windows to first floor and two small lights to ground floor. 4 red brick chimney stacks with pilaster strips, moulded caps and bases.

Listing NGR: TL5524103115