Schoolroom and Meeting Hall
SCHOOLROOM AND MEETING HALL, HAMLET ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466408
- 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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