Ward Street Temperance Hall Including Railings

SU 99 49NE GUILDFORD WARD STREET (West Side) 5/247 Ward Street 14/8/84 Temperance Hall including railings GV II Former Temperance Hall and front railings. 1876, built for the Reverend Francis Paynter of Stoke. High Victorian Pointed Gothic style. Coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins with slate roofs in contrasting bands under red tile crestings. One storey and attic over basement. Two gables to centre with triple attic lancet windows and pentice under parapet across ground floor with porch to centre. Gable-fronted wing to right with triple lancet. Tower to left under pyramidal roof with paired lancet windows over front pentice with triple lancet to left of porch and paired lancet to right and continuous with porch, which has a flight of steps up to an arched entrance with foliated capitals to jamb shaft surround and a parapet decorated with quatrefoils. Doorway with name of hall in parapet to left hand of tower, comtemporary iron railings across front. Rear elevation:- brick dressings paired lancet fenestration and gablets in roof.

Listing NGR: SU9975249653