Description

BEBINGTON BOLTON ROAD
SJ 3384 SE
(north side)
Port Sunlight
14/14 Hulme Hall
20.12.65

G.V. II

Women's dining hall, now community centre. 1901. By
William and Segar Owen. Brick with stone dressings, timber-
framed gables; slate roofs with tile ridges. One storey, 6
bays. Central 2 bays project under gable, as do 2 bays at
each end; re-entrant porches. Stone-faced raking
buttresses, some quoins, and ball finials. Double-
chamfered-mullioned windows with transoms. Central 2 bays
have 3-light windows under gable, the bay to left has 5-
light half-canted bay window with cornice, that to right has
6-light half-centred bay window, with gable over this and
abutting porch gable. End bays have bay windows, 5-light
canted, with 2 transoms to left, and 4-light rectangular
ones with label moulds to right. All windows have
decorative leaded glazing. Left porch has 3-light window
and return entrance with demi-columns, cornice and 3
elliptical-headed overlights, doors have strap hinges.
Right porch similar, with gable to return. Returns have
raking buttresses and 3-light windows, that to right has
extension towards rear, left return had one but it has been
removed. Rear has end gabled bays with elliptical-headed
windows and 2 lateral stacks. Interior has 3 large rooms
and through passage to left of central room. Central roof
has segmental vault, the ribs carried down as piers, gabled
ends with leaded glazing over decorative friezes. Other
rooms similar elliptical vaults with flat margins, that to
left now partitioned. Through passage has decorative
friezes.

Listing NGR: SJ3375084349

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight at Wikipedia
• Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight official website
• Wikidata Q20127887

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)