Former Temperance Hall

Former temperance hall, late-C19 redevelopment of a mid-C19 Nonconformist church.

MATERIALS: the front elevation is stucco-faced, with brick side elevation.

PLAN: a rectangular footprint orientated east to west.

EXTERIOR: the building has a two-storey front elevation. The ground floor has a central doorway flanked by a pair of windows. The modern door is topped by a semi-circular fanlight and sits within a recessed arch. The flanking windows each consist of a pair of round-headed lights, with one-over one-horned sashes, under segmental arches with keystones. Over the ground-floor openings is a moulded stringcourse. There is a first-floor cill course, with a plain frieze below above the ground floor. On the first floor, there is a central circular window with moulded surround which is flanked by a round-arch blank shallow recesses. A string course runs above these windows. Below the circular window is a rectangular recess date panel reading ‘1884’. The elevation is topped by a parapet which incorporates panelled piers and moulded coping; it is carried on a moulded cornice with decorative brackets at either end. Within the parapet is relief lettering reading ‘THE TEMPERANCE HALL’. Behind the parapet is a large pitched roof which is oriented east to west.