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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