Village Hall And Reading Room

BUSCOT THE STREET SU2397 Village Hall and Reading 5/21 Room GV II Hall and reading room. 1897. By Sir Ernest George and Alfred Yeates for Alexander Henderson of Buscot Park as recorded on the clock tower. Distinct from the surrounding Cotswold vernacular estate houses in its more developed Arts and Crafts manner with idiosyncratic revived Classical touches. Coursed rubble stone, stone dressings and gabled stone tiled roof with ball finials and scrolls to copings at eaves line. Stone stacks. One long range with a round-arched loggia to the S, a wing to the E and a S clock tower. 1 storey with 2- and 5-light round-headed mullioned windows on W front, 2- and 4 light flat-headed mullioned windows on N. The main feature of the design is the clock tower of 2 storeys comprising a stone clock chamber with sinuously moulded Ionic angle pilasters rising to an open ringing stage of wood topped by a weather vane. Contemporary L-shaped wooden seat in the loggia.

Listing NGR: SU2312497536