Description

PORTLAND

SY6871 REFORNE, Easton 969-1/4/58 (North side) 21/09/78 St. George's Centre, Assembly Hall (Formerly Listed as: REFORNE Portland St George's County Infant School including Hall and Wall to road)

GV II

Community hall, formerly school assembly hall. c1880. Fine squared and coursed dressed stone, slate roof. A simple one-storey 5-bay rectangular structure, gable to street, with low wing, left, carried through flush with gable. Very simple lancet detailing; 3 stepped lancets to moulded cill and square blockings, under relieving arch to gable with coped verges and saddle-stone. To right, facing the main building, 3 pairs of lancets in flush chamfered surrounds, and to left, behind wing, 2 pairs the same. Wing has double chamfered segmental-pointed arch to plank doors, and in gabled return a single lancet. Rear gable triple lancet similar to front. C20 flat-roofed extension attached to wing. Large stepped stone stack at eaves, left side of hall. Interior has arched-braced trusses over unrendered rubble walls (from above cill level), and deep embrasures to lancets. Good Gothick stone hood fireplace to left.An important element in the overall composition of the Centre.

Listing NGR: SY6884771997

External Links

• Wikidata Q26501352

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