Abbey Mission Hall, 19 Lawn Street

T G Abercrombie, 1893. 2-storey, roughly 3-bay, former Mission Hall comprising Tudor-style front building with gabled dormerheads, mullioned bipartite windows and Arts and Crafts style porch, and rendered brick gabled hall to rear forming L-plan. Tooled, squared, snecked sandstone with polished sandstone ashlar dressings. Band course inscribed ABBEY MISSION HALL; 1st floor cill cornice; bracketed eaves outshot between dormerheads; splayed, moulded window jambs to ground; splayed unmoulded window jambs to 1st floor; shallow relieving arches over 1st floor windows; raised square panels to dormerhead apices, the central one dated 1893; moulded ashlar skews with ball finials to dormer gables.

FURTHER DETAILS: 7 bays to ground floor of front building with doorways in 2nd and 5th bays from left: principal entrance in 5th bay with 2-leaf timber panelled door in moulded round-arch architrave; substantial piend-roofed porch supported on scrolled brackets at wall and polished brown granite columns resting on boundary wall. 2-leaf timber panelled door to 2nd bay from left in roll-moulded, corniced architrave. 3 dormer-headed windows to upper floor. Fairly regular fenestration to rear elevation of front building. 5-bay hall with segmental-arched windows to S elevation only; 2 pointed iron ridge vents.

Variety of glazing patterns including leaded lights, timber sash and case windows with small-pane glazing in upper sashes; timber-framed windows to rear hall. Graded grey Scottish slate; red ridge tiles to roof of hall.

INTERIOR: timber stair to upper floor of front building with decorative turned balusters and sturdy newels with dentiled cornices; fairly plain hall to 1st floor with timber-boarded panelling to dado. Main hall has trussed ceiling and timber-boarded panelling to dado. Timber-panelled interior doors.

BOUNDARY WALL: early 20th century. Saddle-coped snecked sandstone boundary wall in front of main building, rising at entrances to form gatepiers.