Site:   

Masonic Hall,

21 Easemore Road, Town Centre

Grid Reference:    

SP 0429 6786

Description:

Unionist club, now Masonic hall and club. 1908 by John Johnson. Brick with stone dressings and simulated slate roof with parapets at some gable ends. Ridge stack with moulded capping and large external chimneybreast with offsets to front elevation. Irregular plan. 2 storeys with moulded string and also partly with stone band at first-floor level. Main frontage articulated 1:2:3:4 and of irregular widths with projecting wings at left end and to right of centre. Varied fenestration: mainly 16-pane sashes.

Left gable end has a round-arched doorway with a fanlight inscribed �MASONIC HALL�, above which the moulded course is angled to form an open pediment on corbels. Main entrance in central angle has a segmental arch and moulded architrave.

Significance:

This building is of quite plain and severe design but is included as it has been little altered and forms a good group with the adjacent Baptist church and Sunday school (qv), which are contemporary in date and are built of similar materials. Their distinctive forms, which are clearly defined by the open space that surrounds them, give a special character and identity to this part of the town centre.

History:

This building........