Village Hall And Caretaker'S House Adjoining

INGLEBY ARNCLIFFE INGLEBY CROSS NZ 40 SW West side 8/74 Village Hall and caretaker's house adjoining II Village Hall and caretaker's house. 1910 dated over house door with initials HB and FJ and shield,by Sir Ambrose Poynter for Sir Hugh Bell. Finely herringbone-tooled sandstone; pantiled roofs with tile ridges, lead and copper cupola cladding.

One storey, 3½ bays and a set-back porch at right; house at left I½ storeys, 2 bays. Hall porch has wide round-arched opening with flush door. It accommodates washroom and kitchen behind and has a separate hipped roof. Main hall has 3- and 4-light chamfered mullioned windows with wood transoms and leaded casements. Flat buttress bay divisions and big buttress at left end. Half-bay under half-hip of roof at right, has blank panel on front and 4-panel door in right return. Large lunette in gable end. Exposed rafter ends to roof. Ridge cupola with square leaded base, arched open bell stage and square ogee copper dome with vane.

Caretaker's house on left has central glazed door under pediment and flanking 12-pane sashes. At right a passage entrance with boarded door under grille. Two raking dormers, with 2- and 3-light casements, on eaves. Large central brick stack with rebated corners. Small 1-storey brick left extension with hip-ended roof.

Interior of hall: 3 bays with open roof. 2 queen-post trusses with through-purlins and some windbraces. Paired collar-purlins in central bay support framing of cupola. Plastered walls; half-glazed 6-panel doors.

Listing NGR: NZ4492500588