Kirkoswald, Main Road, Richmond Hall

Kirkoswald, Main Road, Richmond Hall is a community hall designed by James Miller in 1924, featuring a symmetrical T-plan and an Arts and Crafts style. It is located on the main street and is characterized by a distinctive tall, tapered entrance bay. The hall has a steeply pitched, low sweeping roof with overhanging eaves, constructed from stugged, coursed rubble. Large piend-roofed windows are present on the hall, breaking the wallhead, along with other bi- and tripartite windows that include timber transoms and mullions. The rear of the building has gabled single-storey wings that contribute to the T-plan layout.

The east elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a central, tall, shouldered-gabled entrance bay with flanking, slightly advanced, flat-roofed single-storey bays. Low steps lead up to a central round-arched moulded doorway, which features a two-leaf boarded timber entrance door and a later canopy. Above the doorway is a carved ashlar name plaque and a clock. The flanking bays have small bipartite window openings, and there is a later wheelchair ramp with a metal railing to the right.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, with a four-bay hall at the center that has large rectangular piend-roofed windows breaking the wallhead. To the far left is an advanced single-storey gabled wing, while the far right features a flat-roofed single-storey bay with a tall entrance bay at the rear, which includes small bipartite windows on the upper level. The north elevation is similar to the south.

The building predominantly features multi-pane timber casement windows and has steeply pitched roofs covered with grey slates. A tall roof stack is located on the rear wing.

Inside, as seen in 2012, the hall is large with timber floorboards, panelling, and a timber stage. The interior boasts a distinctive steeply pitched open timber roof with tie beams and arch braces resting on stone corbels, along with part-glazed internal doors.

Additionally, there are a pair of low, conical-capped rubble gatepiers to the south.