Village Hall

EAST ROUNTON EAST ROUNTON NZ 40 SW (west side) 8/15 Village Hall and Nos 1-6 consecutive GV II Hall and cottages. 1906 dated on polychrome ceramic plaque with escutchion and initials H & F B, by George Jack for Sir Hugh Bell. Brick, partly pebble- dashed. Pantiled roof and copper dome. U-shaped plan with hall in centre and ranges of cottages forming wings. Two storeys. Hall: 7 bays, the outer ones with segmental-arched double doors under pent tiled hoods. Bays divided by buttresses with shaped heads running through a dentilled brick string to the pebble-dashed first floor. Projecting central bay with first-floor wood oriel on iron brackets, clock in brick-dentilled open quasi-pediment above. Hipped roofs to all 3 ranges have swept eaves and exposed rafter ends; tall brick chimneys, some with rebated angles. Cottage ranges of 3 bays, irregular, with doors and ground-floor canted bays under long, bracketed tiled hoods. All window sashes with glazing bars except for first-floor casements in hall. Bell-cupola, with square dome and vane, at centre of roof ridge.

Listing NGR: NZ4222603310