School And Assembly Rooms

The School and Assembly Rooms, dated 1857, is a building that has served various purposes, including a Working Men's Club, and is now used as Assembly Rooms and commercial premises. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a stone slate roof and features coped gables. The building showcases a modest Victorian Gothic style and is designed in an L-plan with a cross wing that contains the assembly hall, which has a gable facing the street on the left. The main wing runs parallel to the street and has a secondary gable near the right end, set against the steep slope of Ine-yard Street.

The gable is a single storey and features five stepped lancet windows with cusping, situated under a continuous stepped string course and an oculus with mouchettes. A plate glass shop front has been added across the bottom of the main window. The building also includes a 1½ storey section with three gables, which contain two-light ogee-cusped windows under small oculi, and three-light cusped windows below, positioned between two arched entrances. The right gable has a three-light window with a stepped drip over a wider section that projects outwards, containing a smaller three-light window at pavement level.

On the return gable, there are lancets arranged in a 1:3:1 pattern with some cusping, under an oculus similar to the main gable, all above a stepped string course before the quoins. This gable also features a small three-light window and a door. Although the building has been modified for commercial use, many original interior fittings remain intact. It plays a significant visual role in Abbey Terrace and holds social importance for Winchcombe. A small faience tablet on the left-hand end notes that the building treated 809 cases as a hospital between 16 May 1915 and 30 November 1918.