Mrs Howard Memorial Hall

Mrs Howard Memorial Hall is a public building located on Norton Way South, built between 1905 and 1906 by architects B Parker and R Unwin. It is the first public building in the Garden City and serves as a memorial to Ebenezer Howard's first wife. The design is a smaller version of Edgar Wood's Church of Christ Scientist in Manchester. In 1907, an L-shaped wing was added to the north-east.

The hall is two storeys tall with a symmetrical entrance front featuring an eclectic style. It has projecting gabled bays that flank a higher central range, topped with hipped tiled roofs and free Tudor brick chimney shafts. The walls are roughcast, and the gabled bays are partly tile-hung. A five-light central dormer window is positioned below the eaves of the central range, and there are three plain windows with loops above in the gables of the projecting bays. The entrance features a moulded brick surround and a segmental arched doorway with double doors.

Inside, the hall has an exposed Queen Post roof and an inglenook with an elliptical brick arch. The extendable classroom or clubroom, which includes a diagonally set platform, is an early example of multi-use space in a public building.