Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656304

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair