SCHOOLROOM AND MEETING HALL

SCHOOLROOM AND MEETING HALL, HAMLET ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375510
Date first listed:: 09-May-1973
List Entry Name:: SCHOOLROOM AND MEETING HALL
Statutory Address:: SCHOOLROOM AND MEETING HALL, HAMLET ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375510
Date first listed:: 09-May-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: SCHOOLROOM AND MEETING HALL
Statutory Address 1:: SCHOOLROOM AND MEETING HALL, HAMLET ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SCHOOLROOM AND MEETING HALL, HAMLET ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Haverhill
National Grid Reference:: TL 67524 45182

Details

HAVERHILL

TL6745 HAMLET ROAD 816-1/5/9 (North East side) 09/05/73 Schoolroom and Meeting Hall (Formerly Listed as: HAMLET ROAD (North East side) Former Old Independent Church now schoolroom and Meeting Hall)

GV II

Congregational church, now meeting hall. 1840. Gault brick with red-brick dressings and roof of concrete tiles. EXTERIOR: entrance in south gable: central gabled porch with shouldered parapet contains arched door flanked by single lancet windows. Main elevation with one tall lancet right and left of porch: over porch is stepped triplet of lancets with oculus above. Saw-toothed cornice to parapeted gable. Surviving original windows have intersecting tracery in the head. 6-bay returns, each bay separated by buttress piers and pierced by multiple-paned windows to ground floor and Y-traceried upper windows. INTERIOR: galleries to all four sides supported on cast-iron reeded columns rising to cast-iron balustrading. Scissor-braced roof, boarded. Raised dais at north end with 3 bays of blind arcading with modified stiff-leaf decoration.

Listing NGR: TL6752445182

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Legacy System number:: 466408
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.