Kenton

Built in 1805 in light brown brick with red brick flat arches. Three storeys with a tiled hipped roof behind parapets. There is an extended façade, the frontage building being three windows wide in front of the actual theatre plus having an offset tier of windows and a wide segmental arched opening to the right indicating a separate (but originally associated?) property. The extent of the theatre is marked at ground floor by a semi-circular arched doorway at either end and by stuccoing. There is a modern canopy and theatre entrance beneath the first two window bays.

After closing in 1813 the theatre became successively a chapel, a school, a parish hall and a scenery workshop. In the mid 1930s it reverted to theatre use. The consequent alterations together with a further series in the 1960s appear to have left of the original fabric only the shell of the building. The double curved balcony probably dates from the 1967 remodelling which left only the earlier windows, the balcony front and the central ceiling mount for a sunburner. The present auditorium is in domestic neo-Georgian style.