The Victorian Hall And Railed Forecourt

The Victorian Hall and railed forecourt is a village hall built in 1875 by architect Alfred Williams. It is constructed of red brick, featuring some tile hanging and a plain tiled roof. The building is a single-storey hall with a two-storey service end. It has a large gabled roof with a string course and buttresses, an apsidal outshot to the left, and two gabled semi-dormers at the center. To the right, there is a canted two-storey bay with a bargeboard and pendant, as well as a stack at the end right that has a moulded and arcaded pair of flues. The windows in the semi-dormers and bay are mullioned and transomed, with the bay featuring side windows on the first floor. There are gabled porches on both the left and right sides, each with mullioned fanlights and moulded depressed-arched doorways that lead to panelled doors. A terracotta plaque to the left of the right-hand porch is inscribed with "Lecture Hall." The left return gable includes pigeon-holes, while the right return and part of the right end of the front elevation are tile hung, with a terracotta plaque on the chimneystack inscribed "18 HM 75." The rear elevation is irregular. The hall is set behind a railed forecourt, which has a low brick wall and simple iron rails, with the principals bifurcated with knibbed scrolls.