Century Hall and Front Wall With Railings
CENTURY HALL AND FRONT WALL WITH RAILINGS, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109469
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Century Hall and Front Wall With Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CENTURY HALL AND FRONT WALL WITH RAILINGS, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109469
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Century Hall and Front Wall With Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTURY HALL AND FRONT WALL WITH RAILINGS, STATION ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CENTURY HALL AND FRONT WALL WITH RAILINGS, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 17854 46548
Details
The following buildings shall be addded:
ASHBOURNE STATION ROAD SK 1746 822-0/1/10002 Century Hall and front wall with railings II GV Church hall and front wall with railings. c1900. Red brick, partly roughcast; ashlar sandstone and terracotta dressings; slate and red tile roofs. 2 storeys (lower storey below street level), 4 bays. Eclectic Art Nouveau style. Steps on left rise to ½-timbered porch with later double doors beneath Tudor arch, brattished tie-beam and gable with V-struts; tile roof. Bay 4 also has steps to rectangular porch with narrow door, tile-hung sides and swept hipped roof. Lower floor bays 2 and 3 lit by porthole windows in architraves with keystones. String course below roughcast upper storeys: 2 semi-circular windows with wooden mullions and central transom lights; terracotta voussoirs with keystones. 2 roof dormers with 3-light casements; swept tiled roofs with pole finials. Upper windows have leaded lights with heart motifs in red glass. Main roof is hipped with swept eaves having boarded soffit on shaped brackets; ventilated terracotta ridge tiles with pole finials; arcaded cupola with swept lead roof and finial. Left return: lower floor lit by large 4-pane sashes with transom lights under cambered arches with double keystones; upper floor with group of 4 round-arched windows in terracotta surrounds. Right return is similar. Interior: plain lower wall; upper hall with 2 round-arched recesses in rear wall and 3 decorative roof trusses. Front wall and railings: square brick piers with domed ashlar caps; coped plinth wall to railings with Art Nouveau Scrollwork panels. 7 further panels to left. Rear-left corner of Century Hall is linked to Ashbourne Methodist Church, Church Street (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SK1785446548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79955
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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