Crispin Hall

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ST 43 NE, 10/80

STREET CP, HIGH STREET (South side), No. 83 (Crispin Hall)

(Formerly listed as: No. 81 (Crispin Hall))

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Public hall, library and reading room; now craft centre and hall. Stone plaque to frontage with raised lettering:- "Club and Library 1883', by G. J. Skipper for William S. Clark. Irregularly coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, double Roman tile roofs, large dormer gable, arcaded wooden bellcote, pyramidal lead roof with bellcast and elaborate weathervane; two zinc ventilating lanterns; large brick stacks with oversailing courses. Roughly rectangular on plan, Domestic Revival. Two storeys and attic, 3:1:2 bays, those to right projecting slightly under a front facing gable; attic with 3-light dormer with a transom; predominantly 2, 3, 5 and 6-light stone-mullioned windows, the majority with transoms and stopped labels. Door opening to centre in a single-storey gabled porch, 4-centred arch door opening, stopped label, paired plank doors; sign at right-angles over door on an iron frame:- *Crispin Hall". Return to Leigh Road of one and two storeys with attics, 1:5:1:1 bays, those to left and right under front-facing gables, third bay set in a projecting stair-turret with an octopartite tile roof with scrolled wrought-iron cresting; 2, 3, and 4-light stone-mullioned windows, some stopped labels; set of 5 bays with tall 3-light windows giving onto the hall, cambered heads, double transoms; a buttress between each of 2 stages with offsets. Two door opening is to right of projecting turret in a hipped roof porch, door opening to right side in a dressed stone surround with a 4-centred head, label, paired plank doors with elaborate hinges; to left with projecting gabled porch, 4-centred arch outer door opening, paired inner plank doors. Stone plaque on turret with figures in relief. Occupies a prominent position of importance on the High Street.

(Mc Garvie M., Guide to Historic Street, unpublished).

Listing NGR: ST4833136632