The Victorian Hall And Railed Forecourt

HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (south side) 17/424 The Victorian Hall and railed forecourt GV II Village hall. 1875 by Alfred Williams, architect. Red brick with some tile hanging and plain tiled roof. Single storeyed hall with 2-storeyed service end. String course and buttresses to large gabled roof with apsidal outshot to left, 2 gabled semi-dormers to centre and canted 2-storey bay to right with bargeboard and pendant, and stack at end right with moulded and arcaded pair of flues. Mullioned and transomed windows to semi-dormers and bay (first floor only), the latter with side windows. Gabled porches with mullioned fanlights to left and to right with moulded depressed-arched doorways, and panelled doors within. Terracotta plaque to left of right-hand porch inscribed: Lecture Hall. Left return gable with pigeon-holes. Right return (and portion of right end of front elevation) tile hung, with terracotta plaque on chimneystack inscribed: 18 HM 75. Irregular rear elevation. Railed forecourt, with low brick wall and simple iron rails, the principals bifurcated with knibbed scrolls. See BOE, Kent, I, 1980, 317.

Listing NGR: TQ7611230541