COOTEHILL, 59 Bridge St, Methodist

Freestanding gable-fronted three-bay double-height single-cell former Methodist church, built 1868, with three-bay nave. Now in use as Masonic Hall. Pitched stale roof, crested terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods on corbels, copings to gables descend to corbelled kneelers, west gable with finial to apex. Coursed random rubble stone walls on a cut stone plinth with raised cut stone v-jointed quoins. Roughcast rendered walls to north-west elevation. Lancet windows with brick surrounds, jambs in block-and-start motif, with stone sills. Y-tracery timber windows with margin and central ladder panes. South-west elevation with oculus window to gable having brick double surround and spoked timber casement window, Y-tracery lancet windows flanking pointed arch door opening with brick dressing, timber sheeted double doors, and tympanum. Set back from street behind railings on low plinth, with double-leaf gates and cast-iron gate piers.

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