Saint Brendan's Masonic Lodge 163 — The Green

Detached single-bay (three-bay deep) double-height gable-fronted Society of Friends' meeting house, built 1858, on an L-shaped plan; three-bay single-storey wing (east). For sale, 1911. Sold, 1913, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof; pitched slate roof (wing), clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables on cut-limestone ogee kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves on cut-limestone ogee consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls on cut-limestone chamfered plinth with cut-limestone quoins to corners. Camber-headed door opening (wing) with three cut-limestone steps, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded double doors having overlight. Camber-headed window openings with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing two-over-two timber sash windows having horizontal glazing bars. Full-height interior with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and dentilated plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on egg-and-dart-detailed decorative plasterwork ceiling roses. Set back from line of street on a corner site with coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having hammered or rough hewn limestone soldier course coping.