Caputh Hall

Caputh Hall is a picturesque Arts and Crafts style village hall built in 1909 by Ebenezer Simpson and extended in 1936. It is a single-storey, six-bay structure located opposite Caputh Parish Church. The hall features battered buttresses, keystoned lunette windows, and broad eaves that overhang beneath a swept, gabled, and piended red-tiled roof, which includes a square ridge ventilator topped with a galley weathervane. The exterior is finished with whitewashed harl and blue-painted timberwork.

The principal south elevation has five original symmetrical bays on the right, with three set-back lunette windows flanked by projecting bays. The right bay includes a gabled porch with a broad two-leaf boarded timber door and a commemorative stone that reads 'CAPUTH HALL / PRESENTED BY / ALEXr PARK LYLE / OF / GLENDELVINE / ANNO 1909'. The left projecting bay has a stepped piended roof. The later bay at the outer left features a single window and a commemorative stone stating 'THIS ADDITION WAS BUILT / IN MEMORY OF / SIR ALEXANDER PARK LYLE / BARONET / OF GLENDELVINE / BORN 1849 DIED 1933 / AMPL 1936 D DE H'. The east elevation showcases a large single lunette in a half-timbered gablehead, while the west elevation has a similar window beneath a stepped piended roofline.

The hall's windows include multi-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case and casement styles. The roof is covered with rosemary tiles, and the chimney stacks are coped with harl and topped with red clay cans. The deeply overhanging eaves are adorned with moulded bargeboards.

Inside, the hall retains a simple interior with a timber floor, boarded timber dado, plain cornicing, and a coombed ceiling featuring original light fittings and decorative cast iron ventilators. There are part-glazed panelled timber screen doors with decorative ironwork handles. The large hall includes a stage at the west end, which has simple mural decoration above the proscenium. Panelled timber doors on either side of the stage lead to staircases that provide access to a later room with a full-height folding timber screen door. A clock donated by the Caputh and Spittalfield Women's Rural Institute in 1928 is also present.