Mrs Howard Memorial Hall

NORTON WAY SOUTH 1. 5255 (east side) Mrs Howard Memorial Hall TL 2232 9/84 II 2. 1905-6 by B Parker and R Unwin. The first public building in the Garden City, and built as a memorial to Ebenezer Howard's first wife. The composition is a smaller scale version of Edgar Wood's Church of Christ Scientist at Manchester. Extended to the north-east by an L-shaped wing in 1907. Two storeys. Symmetrical entrance front in a distinctly eclectic manner with projecting gabled bays flanking higher central range. Hipped tiled roofs with free Tudor brick chimney shafts. Roughcast walls. Gabled bays partly tile-hung. Five-light, central dormer window below eaves of central range. Three plain windows with loops above in gables of projecting bays. Entrance with moulded brick surround and segmental arched doorway with double doors. Interior with exposed Queen Post roof and inglenook with elliptical brick arch. The extendable classroom/clubroom with its diagonally set platform is an early example of multi-use space in a public building.

Listing NGR: TL2211432602