5 Stoneyhill Farm Road, Stoneyhill Community Centre

Circa 1948. Large, symmetrical, 2-storey, 13-bay, purpose-built Neo-Georgian sport and recreational hall with steeply sloping roof and paired advanced entrance and stair bays linked by covered colonnade and balcony overlooking rugby pitch on wide open site. Round arched windows at first floor. Tall roof with plain dutch style end gables, timber-bracketed overhanging eaves, and large, timber and leaded octagonal dome capped ventilator to ridge. Rendered. Squared chamfered columns supporting 7-bay covered colonnade with open balcony over to view rugby pitch.

Predominantly timber multi-pane windows (replacements to first floor caretaker's flat) and timber and glazed entrance doors throughout. Slated roof, rendered stack to rear.

INTERIOR (Seen 2013) : original plan interior intact with central large double height hall with plain dado panelling, barrel vaulted roof, stage and ancillary spaces behind. The former balcony to the hall now partition off to form 1st floor meeting room with access from stairwell. 1st floor hall to N end with caretakers flat with separate entrance to S end (not seen). Timber and glazed doors and screens. Fine stone stairwells to projecting bays with neo-Classical manner cross detail to metal banisters with open squared and capped metal newel posts.