Building record 6/11 - Willaston Memorial Hall, The Green, Willaston

<1> Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council, 2007, Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council Local List of Historic Buildings, LL59 (Index). SCH5437.

Church hall with entrance porch, link to matching late extension. A pastiche of historic styles. Pitched concrete tile roof to hall (recent replacement) with natural slate to extension. Black and white mock Tudor jettied gable to end elevations, 2 no similar blind gables to north elevation. Ground floor of random coursed Ashlar sandstone with 4 no buttresses to north side. Sandstone moulded “decorated” style rounded arch windows to ground floor with small oblong pane leaded lights. Imitation exposed trenail (tree nail) fixings to “joints” of false timbering. Possibly dating from 1920.

<2> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 25/10/2023 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Built in 1955 to replace the ‘The Willaston Institute’ (1891) and adjacent Willaston War Memorial Hut (1920).