Former drill hall including sergeant's house, administration and entrance blocks and boundary walling

Former drill hall with associated administration block, sergeant's house, and entrance block, originally built for the 37th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps in the 1860s, now in use as a social club.

The building is constructed of squared rubble limestone laid roughly to courses with red sandstone dressing and a Welsh slate roof.

The plan comprises an administration block fronting Victoria Road with the former sergeant's house set slightly back to the south. The drill hall extends to the rear of the administration block, with a secondary entrance block to its south originally opening onto Lightburn Road. A basement beneath the drill hall contains an indoor firing range.

The Victoria Road elevation displays a 3-bay, 2-storey administration block with a slightly lower 2-bay, 2-storey sergeant's house set to the left. Both sections have shallow pitched hipped roofs. Red sandstone forms a plinth course and first-floor sill band on both sections. The administration block features timber bracketed eaves supporting a cast iron gutter moulded to form a cornice. The central entrance has double doors beneath a basket arch of red sandstone. Above this is a triple window with red sandstone mullions, lintels and sills, retaining 2-over-2 vertical sashes. The flanking bays contain 2-light windows at first floor and arched-headed 2-light windows at ground floor, these latter with PVC replacement units. The sergeant's house has a slightly off-centre door and standard window openings for single-light sashes, with flat red sandstone lintels; modern PVC units now replace the original joinery. Both structures have end stacks to the south. The north end stack of the administration block has been lost.

The Lightburn Road elevation shows the administration block as a cross wing at the east end of the drill hall, which has blind sides and a rendered, coped west gable. A continuous strip of roof lights runs either side of the ridge about two-thirds up the roof slopes. Two squat drum-shaped ventilators remain at the ridge. A single-storey projection extends south from the drill hall with a low-pitched hipped roof; this features a blocked double entrance facing the road with very small flanking windows. To its west is a flat-roofed extension not included in the listing. The sergeant's house has a central 2-light ground-floor window and two single-light first-floor windows to this frontage, all with PVC units; rear windows also have PVC replacements. A high stone boundary wall with stone coping marks the remainder of the Lightburn Road frontage.

The drill hall interior comprises five bays with paired principal rafters supported by radial struts extending from nearly semi-circular paired arched braces, the struts protruding to form simple pendants. The western two bays have been partitioned to form a bar servery and lounge, both with suspended ceilings; the remaining hall remains open to the roof structure. The floor is sprung timber. The rear wall of the administration block retains evidence of originally being partly open to form a viewing gallery.

The full basement beneath the hall has been partially subdivided into rooms but retains a shooting range extending its full length. This has a stone flagged floor at the east end and a concrete floor at the west end, replacing a former earthen floor designed to absorb ricochets. The secondary entrance projection on the south side has been reconfigured to form toilets. The interiors of the administration block and sergeant's house were not inspected.