Caputh Hall

Ebenezer Simpson 1909, extended 1936. Picturesque Arts and Crafts style single storey, 6-bay village hall sited opposite Caputh Parish Church. Battered buttresses, keystoned lunette windows and distinctive broad eaves overhang under swept, gabled and piended, red-tiled roof with square ridge ventilator with galley weathervane. Whitewashed harl with blue painted timberwork. Segmentally-arched, deep-set segmental-headed doorway; stone cills, banded at centre bays of principal elevation.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: principal S elevation comprising 5 original symmetrical bays to right with 3 set back lunette windows flanked by projecting bays, that to right with gabled porch, broad 2-leaf boarded timber door and commemorative stone 'CAPUTH HALL / PRESENTED BY / ALEXr PARK LYLE / OF / GLENDELVINE / ANNO 1909', projecting bay to left with stepped piended roof. Later bay at outer left with single window and commemorative stone 'THIS ADDITION WAS BUILT / IN MEMORY OF / SIR ALEXANDER PARK LYLE / BARONET / OF GLENDELVINE / BORN 1849 DIED 1933 / AMPL 1936 D DE H'. E elevation with large single lunette in half-timbered gablehead, W elevation with similar window under stepped piended roofline.

Multi-pane glazing patterns to timber sash and case and casement windows. Rosemary tiles. Coped harled stacks with red clay cans. Deeply overhanging eaves with moulded bargeboards.

INTERIOR: simple hall interior retains timber floor, boarded timber dado, plain cornicing, coombed ceiling with original light fittings and decorative cast iron ventilators. Part-glazed panelled timber screen doors with decorative ironwork handles; large hall has stage at W end with simple mural decoration over proscenium. Panelled timber doors flanking stage lead to staircases (flanking stage) giving access to later room with full-height folding timber screen door. Clock donated by Caputh and Spittalfield WRI 1928.