Broad Chare, Trinity House Banqueting Hall

Banqueting Hall. Dated 1721 on plaque. English garden wall bond brick (4 and one)
with painted ground floor and ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 5
windows. Ground floor has segmental-headed passage arch in third bay; irregular
fenestration: 3 square windows, 2 on left C19 2-light, Tudor style under drip
moulds. First floor has covered gallery in first bay linking with adjacent
building; 5 elliptical-headed sash windows with wide glazing bars in architraves
with small keys; moulded sills. Floor string; gutter cornice under parapet with
pilasters and ashlar coping. Interior shows 4-bay hall with panelled walls;
ceiling has stucco decoration with central oval compass. Re-used Jacobean
overmantel with carved side panels and central arms of Charles I. Mostly
original or early glass. Board room off entrance passage: dated 1791 on plaque
on right return to rear of banqueting hall. Probably by John Stokoe. Half-
glazed door and screen to passage; stucco modillioned ceiling cornice; chimney
piece with cornice. LISTED GRADE 1