Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 BOUGHTON
1932-1/6/10 (South side)
10/01/72 Campbell Memorial Hall (excluding
east entrance) and former cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
BOUGHTON
Campbell Memorial Hall)

GV II

Church hall and caretaker's cottage for St Paul's Church,
Boughton (qv). 1894-1897. By TM Lockwood. Dressed stone, brick
and timber framing with plaster panels; grey slate roof. Hall,
left and cottage right.
EXTERIOR: hall has lower front wing with double 6-panel doors
in basket archway with cartouche inscribed "CAMPBELL MEMORIAL
HALL" under shaped gable with finials, left, and flat-roofed
bay with 4-light part-shuttered mullioned and transomed
casement, upper lights leaded, right. The hall rises behind,
ridge parallel with front, 2 basket-arched leaded
cross-casements in stone-banded round dormer gables; simple
stone-coped gable-end right; close-studded gable right rising
from ridge of cottage roof. Cupola belfry on ridge.
The cottage has brick lower storey with 5-light timber
mullioned and transomed window, upper lights leaded; raised
entrance-bay left with 6-panel door in stone case. Bressumer
on 4 tall jetty-beams; close-studded first floor with canted
7-light leaded oriel on 3 brackets. Boldly-jettied front gable
on corner brackets has herringbone strutting in lower panels
and close-studded apex; bargeboards. A shaped 4-flue red brick
chimney.
For the east entrance to the hall, see No.3 The Mount (qv).
The rear, south face to lawn overlooking Dee has full-length
lean-to roof over verandah and outshut, below 3 windows with
mullion and 2 transoms to hall in shaped dormer gables, as to
the front. The kitchen, east, has 3 similar windows under
stone-dressed gables.
INTERIOR: the hall has substantial exposed softwood trusses
with tie, queen posts, collar and king post. The kitchen, much
lower, has concave ceiling; a passage beneath the upper floor
of No.3 The Mount, to east entrance.
(Chester City Council and Committees: Improvement Committee
Minutes: September 1984).

Listing NGR: SJ4183266448

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