Temperance Hall And Attached Schoolroom

This is a Salvation Army Temperance Hall and attached schoolroom, built in 1846 for Christopher Bowly. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, with stone slates on the right side of the roof, artificial stone slates on the left, and a hipped roof to the rear schoolroom. The hall has truncated ashlar stacks to the left and right, and a rebuilt brick ridge stack to the schoolroom.

The hall itself is in a simple Gothic style, with a gabled front. It has a single storey and one window. A large pointed window with perpendicular tracery sits within a chamfered reveal and hoodmould. A full-width ashlar projection to the front, with a lean-to roof, forms a porch with higher stair turrets on either side. The porch features a pair of studded boarded doors with large scrolled strap hinges, set within a square-headed moulded stone surround, with a pointed head to the doorway. The spandrels of the pointed head are carved with the initials 'CB'. Leaded lancet windows are set in splayed reveals with hoodmoulds, flanking the door. Similar windows are found in the stair turrets. Decorative ribbon carving with the lettering 'CB AD 1846' is present, along with a lancet window with a trefoil head and splayed reveal. The gable has moulded stone coping with trefoil-headed stops on corbelled-out kneelers and ridge stops. The left-hand side of the building features four tall lancet windows with trefoil heads, articulated by buttresses and a central buttressed stack.

The schoolroom, likely built in the earlier 19th century, appears to the rear. Its north elevation (liturgical east) is two storeys and three windows. The first floor has a two-light and a three-light stone-mullion window, a similar single-light window, and an early diamond-pattern leaded light to the two left-hand lights of the three-light window to the right. The ground floor has a two-light stone mullion and transom window, a similar two-light window, and three single-light windows, some with 20th-century leaded lights. Four weathered buttresses are present on the ground floor. A 20th-century extension is attached to the right, and the interiors of the original building were not inspected.