Village Hall, Main Street, Eccles

The Village Hall on Main Street in Eccles was originally built in 1844 as a Free Church and converted into a village hall in 1939. It features a symmetrical T-plan with a prominent central section and a lower, single-bay gabled block attached to the outer left. The building is constructed from squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone rubble, with ashlar dressings. It has a raised base course, narrow quoin strips, droved rubble quoins, and long and short surrounds to its openings. The central area has square-headed windows, while the flanking bays contain pointed-arched windows with chamfered margins, sandstone mullions, and chamfered cills throughout.

On the northwest elevation, there is a three-bay wing that projects at the center, featuring a two-leaf timber panelled door with an architraved surround and an engraved rectangular panel above. A five-light glazing row is centered in the gablehead, with a slit opening above it. There are bipartite windows flanking the entrance at ground level, and pointed-arched windows in the recessed bays to the right and left. A single window is centered in the slightly advanced gabled bay on the outer left, with a slit opening in the gablehead.

The southwest elevation has a three-bay gabled wing projecting to the right, with a two-leaf boarded timber door at the center and a pointed-arched bipartite window above. Pointed-arched single windows are found in the flanking bays, and there is a small single window at ground level in the bay recessed to the outer left.

The southeast elevation features regularly spaced pointed-arched windows. The pointed-arched windows have a lying-pane effect opaque glazing, while modern glazing is used in the remaining openings. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring tiered skews and gableted and bracketed skewputts, along with replacement rainwater goods. There is a stop-chamfered, rendered apex stack to the former vestry, which has a squat circular chimney.

Inside, there is a stair off the vestibule with timber treads, plain timber uprights, finialled newels, and timber handrails. The former nave runs southwest to northeast and has a boarded timber floor, plain plaster cornices, and a combed ceiling, with a stage now set at the east end. The doors are part-glazed and solid timber panelled. The upper meeting room is sparsely detailed.

The site is enclosed by low coped rubble boundary walls at the front.