Village Hall, Main Street, Eccles

1844; converted to village hall, 1939. Symmetrical T-plan former Free Church advanced at centre with lower, single bay gabled block adjoined to outer left. Squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone rubble; ashlar dressings. Raised base course; narrow quoin strips; droved rubble quoins; long and short surrounds to openings. Square-headed windows at centre; pointed-arched windows with chamfered margins to flanking bays; sandstone mullions; chamfered cills throughout.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay wing projecting at centre with 2-leaf timber panelled door centred at ground; architraved surround; engraved rectangular panel above; 5-light glazing row centred in gablehead; slit opening above; bipartite windows at ground flanking entrance. Pointed-arched windows in bays recessed to right and left. Single window centred in gabled bay slightly advanced to outer left; slit opening in gablehead.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay gabled wing projecting to right with 2-leaf boarded timber door centred at ground; pointed-arched bipartite window above; pointed-arched single windows in flanking bays. Small single window at ground in bay recessed to outer left.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: regularly-spaced pointed-arched windows.

Lying-pane effect opaque glazing in pointed-arched windows; modern glazing to remaining openings. Grey slate roof; tiered skews; gableted and bracketed skewputts. Replacement rainwater goods. Stop-chamfered, rendered apex stack to former vestry (?); squat circular can.

INTERIOR: stair off vestibule with timber treads, plain timber uprights, finialled newels, timber handrails. Former nave running SW-NE with boarded timber floor; plain plaster cornices; combed ceiling; stage now set to E end. Part-glazed and solid timber panelled doors. Sparsely-detailed upper meeting room.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped rubble walls enclosing site to front.