The Gospel Hall

The Gospel Hall is an early 19th-century house and former Gospel Hall located on East Street in Ashburton. The front facade is rendered and designed to resemble masonry, likely concealing a timber-frame construction. The left-hand gable is slate-hung. The roof is slate-covered, with a rendered chimney on the ridge. The building is three storeys high and originally two windows wide. A 19th-century shop front is present on the ground floor at the right-hand end; this doorway now belongs to the adjacent property at number 9. Upper-floor windows are 6-paned sashes set within moulded architraves. The second-floor windows have cornices supported by consoles, while the third-floor windows have bracketed sills. A deep eaves cornice, with panels set between the brackets, runs along the top of the building.