The Assembly Rooms

The Assembly Rooms, originally built as assembly rooms and now converted into flats, features a painted stucco exterior with a slate hipped roof and no chimneys. The facade was described in 1974 as being made of stone rubble. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. On the first floor, there are two six-pane square windows on the right, which correspond to the lower half of 12-pane hornless sashes on the left. In 1974, the right-hand pair of windows was blocked. The ground floor includes three large 12-pane sash windows, which had visible stone voussoirs in 1974, along with a tall doorway in the left bay. This doorway has been renewed in the late 20th century and features a tall architrave frame with two long console brackets that support a thin shelf cornice above a narrow frieze. The architrave frames a blank top panel over a recessed doorway that has a 6-pane overlight. The left end of the building is windowless. The tall rear elevation facing Dark Street is three storeys high with three bays. The top floor has two square 6-pane windows and one long 12-pane sash on the right; the first floor has two 12-pane sashes and a large tripartite window with a configuration of 4-12-4 panes on the right. The basement features 16-pane sashes on both the left and right, with the right one set in a blocked arched recess, and a tall arched doorway in the centre that has a radiating-bar fanlight above a 6-pane overlight and a late 20th-century door, flanked by narrow 8-pane windows. The interior has not been inspected but is said to have been completely altered during the conversion.