Former Assembly Rooms of Music & Drama

Rectangular double pile plan. Symmetrical 2-storey and basement, 3-window lightly scribed stucco front (S side) with band course and plinth, twin hipped slate roofs, wide bracket eaves and rubble chimney stack. Small pane sash windows, to ground floor with arched heads and set in stepped recesses flanking central plain porch (added 1829/30) with arched entrance; double panelled doors below traceried fanlight. Railings either side of the porch, to the right with steps down to the basement. Low walls continue at either end, with corner piers and blocked doorways, screening small enclosed courtyards (1829/30). Behind are 2-storey. Similar ranges set in the slope with asymmetrically spaced sash windows, terminating in advanced gable ends with pediment treatment on the rear elevation.

2-storey, 5-bay rear (N) stucco front with plinth and channelled ground floor below band course. Wide bracket eaves, higher over central bays with glazed arched heads to tall tripartite small pane sash windows lighting the Parry Hall. Square headed similar windows to outer bays and to stepped down ground floor entered by central half glazed doors.

Originally the building comprised "Assembly and Promenade Room", a card room, billiards room and "Refreshment Room", the first of which now forms the Joseph Parry Hall with 'minstrels gallery' and egg and dart cornice. Alterations to University use.