Mayflower Place Memorial Hall

The Mayflower Place Memorial Hall is a village hall and caretaker's accommodation, built in 1910 for the Countess Cowper of Panshanger in memory of the 7th Earl Cowper, who died in 1905. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and tiled roofs, designed in a Jacobethan style.

The main hall features a lean-to aisle and a two-storey cross range to the rear, with the caretaker's house set to the right. The prominent front gable of the hall features a large stone mullion and transom window with ovolo moulding and leaded panes, framed within an irregular stone surround. Above this window is a carved stone plaque bearing the Cowper arms on a double-headed eagle, displaying the motto “TUUM EST” and the date “1910”, set on a projecting base with foliate ornament to the cornice. A smaller two-light mullioned window sits below. The building has a double plinth and irregular stone quoining throughout. A cornice runs to a coped gable parapet, topped with a ridge finial, while at the flattened ends of the gable are diagonally-set ashlar stacks with moulded cornices.

A full-height projecting bay window on the left return of the hall features a three-by-three light window with a coped gable and three finials. Further windows include a five-light mullioned window and a short gabled projection with a two-light window and a plank door. A further projecting gabled block extends from the rear of the hall, featuring a two-light window. The rear cross range projects slightly and has two six-light mullion and transom windows, with ball finials to the coped parapet. A low brick and stone coped wall fronts a cement-rendered and timber lean-to entrance passage on the left return, leading to double eight-panelled doors and four 20th-century three-light casements.

The caretaker's accommodation, extending to the right from the rear of the hall, is four bays wide. The ground floor includes an entrance to the right of centre with a glazed and panelled door, a cornice to the surround, and flanking two, four, and two-light mullioned windows. The first floor has one, two, and three-light windows. A cross axial stack is positioned to the left of centre, with three diagonal shafts. The right gable end has three-light windows and a coped and finialed gable parapet. The rear of the cross range features four-light windows on the ground floor (one cross glazed, one mullioned only) and a first-floor window consisting of a three-by-two-light half dormer with a gabled head. An internal stack with four diagonal shafts is located at the rear angle of the hall and cross wing. A triple-shafted stack stands to the rear of the caretaker's range, alongside a one-storey wing.

Inside, the hall has a five-bay roof with moulded braces to the tie beam roof, panelled dado, and arcaded panelling on the stair, with ball finials to the newels. The first floor of the cross range is lined with linenfold panelling featuring a vine scroll frieze carved by the Countess Cowper.