Antrobus House

Antrobus House is a village hall built in 1924-25, designed by Geoffrey Fildes. It is constructed of hand-made bricks in a Flemish bond pattern with a tiled roof. The building is designed in an Early Georgian style and is symmetrical, comprising a tall central five-bay block housing the main hall, connected by lower links to two three-bay cross wings which contain ancillary services. The main block’s central entrance features a pair of doors with decorated fanlights within a round-headed Portland stone doorcase, incorporating a carved keystone connected to swags above. Tall two-paned sash windows with segmental gauged brick heads and prominent keystones flank the entrance, with recessed brick panels above a plat band corresponding to the upper floor window sills. The upper floor windows are twelve-paned sashes, also with segmental brick heads. A moulded timber dentilled cornice runs along the top of the building. The roof is hipped with dormers to the sides and a central, tall glazed lantern topped with a square lead dome and a wind vane shaped like a galleon. The linking sections are two storeys high and feature parapets and glazed doors on the ground floor. The wings have fifteen-paned sashes to the ground floor and twelve-paned sashes above, all with gauged brick lintels. They also have parapets and hipped roofs, and each wing has two tall, panelled brick stacks. The side elevations feature half-glazed doors. A brick porch has been added to the south side of the building. The interior of the main hall incorporates cross beams and oak bolection moulded panelling. The hall was built to a high standard as a memorial to an Antrobus family member lost in the Great War.