Description

SE50SW HIGH MELTON DONCASTER ROAD
(south side)
7/90
Students Union building
to High Melton College
5.6.68 (formerly listed as
Village Hall and School)

GV II

Village hall. Early C20. Pebble-dashed walls, graduated Westmorland slate roof.
T-shaped plan with gabled, 2-storey, single-bay central block having stair projection
to right; single-storey side-wings to rear. In Arts and Crafts style. Central doorcase
feature with double doors and overlight beneath moulded basket arch of herringbone-
tooled ashlar; architrave steps up over 2 flattened-ogee panels; consoled cornice
carved with oak leaves and roses. Flanking, round-headed, single-light windows have
moulded, quoined surrounds and dripstones. 5-light window over door has recessed,
cavetto-moulded, ogee-headed lights; dripstone. Tall windows to stair projection on
right. Carved kneelers set on cornices which return on side walls, moulded gable
copings. Wing set back to left has two, transomed 2-light windows beneath shaped
gable; door on right with moulded surround, carved lintel and bracketed hood. Wing
set back on right has door only; battered wallstone stalk.,with cornice to rear.
Left return: projection with double-transomed, 3-light window with cornice beneath
Diocletian window and shaped gable; flanking round-headed windows of 2 lights with
transom. Right return: angled stair projection with 3-light window, otherwise as
left return.

Listing NGR: SE5093601928

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444520

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)