Tiverton Memorial Hall

Heritage listing

Details TIVERTON SS9512 ANGEL HILL, Tiverton 848-1/6/110 (South side) War Memorial Library and Hall GV II Public library and hall, commemorating the dead of 1914-18 war. 1928-9 by Dixon and Bamsey of Tiverton. Concrete front, the walling of pink and yellow blocks resembling coursed squared rubble, the details yellow to resemble limestone. Rear wall of red brick. Slated roof. A pair of octagonal concrete chimneys at each end of ridge. STYLE: Tudor style. PLAN: (room names as in 1929): central entrance hall and staircase; Hall of Remembrance, containing memorial plaques, to left, caretaker's flat to right. Assembly, concert or dance hall, with stage, to rear. Smaller assembly or social room in lower ground floor, together with kitchen servery. Library on first floor. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with semi-basement; single-storey hall at rear. 8 windows wide, the left end (with 1 upstairs window) splayed and containing the vehicle entrance in the ground storey. Remaining 7 windows symmetrically arranged with projecting, 1-window entrance porch in the centre. Windows have 3 mullioned-and-transomed lights, those to the ground storey with 2 rows of transoms and continued hoodmoulds. All the windows except those in the semi-basement have small rectangular leaded panes. Above the second-storey windows a moulded cornice and tall parapet. Porch carried out on 2 slightly bulbous Doric columns with matching half-columns against the wall face. From the columns spring round arches, front and sides, the taller front arch with keystone. Above the latter is a circular plaque carrying the town seal, its border with the inscription SIGILLUM OPPIDI DE TYVERTON. Flanking the plaque are the dates 1914 and 1918 and below it the words TIVERTON MEMORIAL. The porch is finished with a triangular gable and

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.