Listed Building: (101838)

1. 5186 ST MICHAEL'S ROAD (West Side) No 6 SZ 089l 13/117 1.8.74 II 2. Built as Freemasons' Hall,circa 1870, but still of Italianate type of circa 1840 (style of Charles Fowler). Elegant facade of colour-washed brick dressed in stucco, on basement increasing in depth down hill. Tall central bay with arched window (moulded frame, sill on consoles) flanked by pairs of giant pilasters supporting entablature and pediment. Main hall set back on either side, with clerestory of small arched windows, behind lower wings with arched windows, pilasters and entablature. In place of left-hand window, bigger arch for entrance, secondary entrance at other end (to basement) added 1910 - good Michelangesque frame with rusticated piers and swagged keystone under segmental pediment. Hall interior has shallow segmental plaster ceiling on coving: end bays with ribs (carved with foliage) radiating from circle, central bay, also with circle, has transverse ribs connecting pilasters on side walls, flanking projecting bay under external pediment and segmentally pedimented doorway opposite, both with dentil cornices. Through doorway is lobby, parallel to hall, with staircase to basement: pitched skylight over semi-circular ceiling ribs, walls given frenchy plaster panelling in 1910. Beyond is second larger hall added 1910: plaster ceiling of 4-centred section with flat skylight in centre and arched ribs carried on elaborate corbels with console brackets and blocks with hanging tassels, plaster panelling to walls. Listing NGR: SZ0818591095

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Nov 1 2006 4:40PM