Oddfellows Hall

Oddfellows Hall, formerly the National Girl's School, is a high Victorian Gothic building dating from the 19th century. It has a striking two-storey facade made of red brick, featuring rendered coping at the parapet. The first floor showcases three large pointed arched windows, each consisting of two lights and flanked by rendered columns with foliate capitals. The tympana above the windows include two circular lights on either side of a central rose. The windows have stepped sills and rendered moulding on the arches, which is complemented by gauged brickwork. Broad brick pilaster strips with an acanthus band run between the window bays at the level of the window heads, and there is a band between the storeys. The ground floor features a three-bay arcade with gauged brick elliptical arches and rendered drip moulds on brick piers topped with rendered caps. An early 20th-century shop front is set back from the main facade. Nos 1 to 16 Maryport Street, which are consecutive, form a group with this building.