Ward Street Temperance Hall Including Railings

Ward Street Temperance Hall, including railings, is a former Temperance Hall built in 1876 for the Reverend Francis Paynter of Stoke. It is designed in the High Victorian Pointed Gothic style. The building features coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with slate roofs in contrasting bands beneath red tile crestings. It consists of one storey and an attic over a basement.

The façade has two gables at the center, each with triple attic lancet windows, and a pentice under a parapet across the ground floor, which includes a central porch. To the right is a gable-fronted wing with a triple lancet window. On the left, there is a tower topped with a pyramidal roof, featuring paired lancet windows above the front pentice. To the left of the porch is a triple lancet window, and to the right, there are paired lancet windows that connect with the porch. The porch has a flight of steps leading up to an arched entrance, which is adorned with foliated capitals on the jamb shaft surround and a parapet decorated with quatrefoils. There is a doorway with the name of the hall inscribed in the parapet to the left of the tower, and contemporary iron railings extend across the front. The rear elevation includes brick dressings, paired lancet windows, and gablets in the roof.