Rothbury Hall

TQ 3978 AZOF STREET (north side) 786-/16/10021 Rothbury Hall (including Rothbury Hall, MAURITIUS STREET)

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Former Congregational mission, later the East Greenwich United Reformed Church and now an arts centre and workshops. 1893-4 by W T Hollands. Very red brick with stone voussoirs, bell-cast slate roofs with central cupola and prominent stacks and finials. The plan form is a six-bay hall range (with two halls) with five-bay cross wings facing the roads, with two staircase towers to south asymmetrically placed. Two storeys with elaborate timber dormers, these also with roof finials. The principal elevations are symmetrical, with deep eaves. Casement windows with transoms, the upper panes of small lights like those to the dormers and staircase tower; the ground-floor windows round-arched and with voussoirs. Entrance to Rothbury Hall on Azof Street has paired double doors under similar voussoirs with elaborate plaster moulding in typanum. Central entrance to workshops has projecting hood with swan-neck pediment supported on bolection-moulded cornice and hefty console brackets. The interior retains cast-iron balcony fronts to former church. Included as a 'very weird and exotic' design (Buildings of England, London South, 1983, p.248).

Listing NGR: TQ3950878589