Description

SD 63 NE AIGHTON, BAILEY & CHAIGLEY AVENUE ROAD

8/3 Guild Hall

GV II

Guild Hall, now Catholic social club, c.1800. Sandstone rubble with slate
roofs. Cruciform plan, 2 storeys with central taller block of square plan
with pyramidal roof. Quoins project with furrowed tooling. The return walls
of the wings are of 2 bays each, with windows having plain reveals and
tooled sills and lintels. The 1st floor windows on the west wall of the
south-west wing are sashed with glazing bars. There are doors with plain
stone surrounds in the east wall of the north-east wing, in the gable of
the south-east wing and in the south wall of the north-west wing, this
latter being blocked and replaced by a modern door in the angle with the
adjoining wing. Against the gable of the south-west wing is an external
stone stair with solid parapet, leading to a 1st floor door with plain
stone surround. The higher ground level allows entry directly onto the
1st floor at the north-west gable, which has the present main entrance.
Entry is through a porch with later C19th carved bargeboards and C20th
extensions.

Listing NGR: SD6852437980

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26327880

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