Barton-upon-Humber Assembly Rooms
Architecture
The building is two storeys in height and is built from local, red bricks capped with a Welsh slate roof. On the Queen's street frontage it has a central 6-panel door under an oblong fanlight within a pilastered doorcase with projecting cornice. This main entrance is flanked by two additional doorways, each a 4-panel door beneath an oblong fanlight. There are sashed windows with sixteen panes on the ground floor and twenty-four panes on the first floor. Each window has a channelled and cambered stone lintel with a larger central keystone. Above the first floor windows are recessed brick panels. At the top of this frontage, there is a stepped brick cornice. A stone plaque above the main door is carved with the words 'Assembly Rooms'. To the left of this is a blue plaque recording its construction as a Temperance Hall in 1843.
History and use
The building was constructed in 1843 as a Temperance Hall at a cost of £700 following the formation of a Temperance Society in Barton in 1837. In 1903 the building was closed and offered for sale. In it was re-opened as the Assembly Rooms.
It is currently used as the offices for Barton Town Council.
Gallery
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Front elevation
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Door detail
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Use as a polling station (2007)
References
- ^ Historic England. "ASSEMBLY ROOMS (1346843)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "Assembly Rooms - Barton-upon-Humber - North Lincolnshire". northlincs.com. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "History of the Assembly Rooms". Community Heritage Arts and Media Project. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "Barton Town Council, Barton-Upon-Humber". Retrieved 21 December 2018.