John Halle'S Hall (Now Forming Entrance To The Odeon Cinema)

NEW CANAL 1. 1594 (South Side) John Halle's Hall (now forming entrance to The Odeon Cinema) SU 1429 NW 3/99 28.2.52.

I GV 2. C15 with 1881 imitation timber front, elaborate framework, 3 storeys gabled, ornate carved bargeboards and finial. 8 light lattice casements to both floors, pargetting to side panels, carved beam ends to overhangs. Cinema entrance on ground floor. The remains of the Hall consist of an outer lobby 2 storeys high (the present Cinema entrance lobby) of timber framed structure restored, with an open gallery at 1st floor level and heavily beamed ceiling over 1st floor, this leads into the Hall which is in a fairly original state, of 2 storeys with open timber roof with elaborate cusped bracing pattern to purlins supported on moulded pointed arched beams. The east wall has original tall stone mullioned windows with modern lead lights with one smaller similar window on west wall. From this hall 2 doors lead into a lower inner room with a heavy moulded beamed ceiling. The exterior of the east front is of ashlar stone with 2 moulded stone mullioned windows with pointed arched cusped heads to light set in rectangular frame of coved moulding, with small arched door to left hand of similar design, with small arched door to left hand of similar design, with trefoil spandrel ornament. The west side of the Hall is of brick and flint and one small stone mullioned window to left hand with pointed cusped heads to lights. Old tile roof to Hall.

John Halle's Hall and Nos 17 & 19 form a group.

Listing NGR: SU1447229911