NHER 44525 (Building record) - Village Hall

Improvement Institute, now village hall, built 1857 of red brick and black pantiles. Single storey L-shaped plan. Façade three windows with central porch. Brick rusticated to corners and corbelled brick eaves. Three light casement windows with flat gauged brick arches with projecting key blocks. Rusticated brick quoins on porch with semi-circular gauged brick arch over entrance with blocked occulus above. Over the entrance an inscribed stone panel. End gable stacks. 19th and 20th century extensions at rear not of special interest. Inscription over the entrance door 'Mutual Improvement Institution'. To the left of the door tablets inscribed 'J. H. Warnes, May 10th 1859' and 'This Institute was established by George Shreeve, November 2nd 1857'. Bricks on porch variously inscribed, including 'Miss L. Warnes'.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 10 May 2006.