Survey Data
Reg No
41304006
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Hall
In Use As
House
Date
1910 - 1915
Coordinates
250039, 326233
Date Recorded
19/12/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Five-bay single-storey former temperance hall, dated 1912, with gable-fronted breakfront entrance, and having higher six-bay single-storey return to rear, east-most bay of latter being lower, with single and further lower two-bay blocks. Further four-bay building to east. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, pair of smooth rendered central chimneystacks to front block with rendered coping and terracotta pots, rendered gable copings topped having moulded kneelers and finials to apexes, and moulded eaves course. Rectangular-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course and with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to entrance. Plaque above entrance reads 'St. Joseph’s Temperance Hall 1912'. Stepped buttresses to south elevation of return. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows, painted sills and smooth rendered sill course. Blind Venetian-style windows to gables of front block. Windows to return set within square-headed niches and windows of eastern building flanked by pilasters. Round-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door surmounted by glazed fanlight, smooth rendered chamfered block-and-start surrounds with large moulded keystone, approached by flight of concrete steps. Bounded by rock-faced limestone wall brought to courses with chamfered stone coping, smooth rendered gate piers with pyramidal copings, and decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gates. Located on eastern side of Church Hill Road directly south of churchyard wall.
Appraisal
As an example of a temperance hall, this building is a rare type. Its form and details are typical of the early twentieth century. Decoration is confined to the entrance, whose plaque details the nature and date of the structure. Its position adjacent to the Catholic church, is significant.