The Assembly Rooms

The Assembly Rooms are a building of 18th-century origins. They are constructed of local stone rubble, with some areas rendered, and have a hipped roof covered in stone slates and upper courses of plain tiles, along with three metal ventilators to the ridge. The street facade is five bays wide. The lower bays one and two contain 19th-century windows. The second bay has a doorway set into an elliptical arch with the words "The Assembly Rooms" carved into the tympanum. Bays three and four have 18th-century moulded surrounds to openings which are now blocked with shutters, and bay five contains a small two-light window with metal bars. The upper bays one and two have twelve-pane sash windows, while bays three and four have sixteen-pane sashes, as well as mezzanine two-light casements in plain mullioned surrounds immediately below. The lower part of the north-east corner is rounded off. Internally, a brick and stone access stair leads to the first floor from the yard behind the Blue Ball Public House. The rear elevation features elliptical arched stable doors and several sixteen-pane sash windows. The building may represent a 19th-century conversion of one or more 18th-century houses.