List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: WEST MEMORIAL HALL
List Entry Number: 1321953
Location
WEST MEMORIAL HALL, GOSBROOK ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Reading
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Non Civil Parish
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 14-Dec-1978
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 38961
Asset Groupings
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
GOSBROOK ROAD
1.
5128
(South Side)
West Memorial Hall
SU 7174 11/494
II
2.
1865-66 by Alfred Waterhouse. Gothic. Red brick former Baptist Free Church,
gable end to street. Stone plinth and dressings. Banded tile roof. Blue
brick bands in gable above and below rose window. Tumbled brick in chimney
to south gable. Blue and red brick herring bone work in tympanum over pair
of lancets to left. The main feature is the right hand bay - this has a hipped
rectangular stair turret to gallery with external stairs on quadrant wall to
base. 4 bay side wall to west with arched passage below buttresses, cogged
eaves cornice, paired lancets, except to 1/2 dormer to north. 1911 extension
to east with central gable, echoes style of north gable. Interior rearranged.
An interesting display of materials.
Listing NGR: SU7147374742
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Map
National Grid Reference: SU 71473 74742
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