R.A.O.B Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. Club hall. 1 related planning application.
R.A.O.B Hall
- WRENN ID
- secret-window-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1986
- Type
- Club hall
- Address
- R.A.O.B Hall, 52, Witton Street, Northwich, CW9 5AG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 660 740
- Coordinates
- 53.26203, -2.51079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a Constitutional Club, now known as the R.A.O.B. Hall, constructed in 1911 by J Cawley. It is a timber-framed building designed to be lifted in case of subsidence, with plaster panels and a grey slate roof. The building is two storeys high with three windows. It has a small frame and a recessed porch to the right, featuring a cambered oak lintel and two mullioned and transomed casement windows to the left. The upper storey includes a central balcony with a balustrade and a jettied gable supported by brackets, featuring an ornate bressumer, bargeboards, and a finial. Rounded oriel windows with sidelights are located on either side of the balcony. All windows contain ornate leaded glass. Quadrant braces are visible in the plaster panels. The end gables have moulded beams. The interior contains a hall with dado panelling. The building is considered to be the best-preserved example of Cawley’s ornate timber-framed subsidence-liftable buildings.
Local climate
R.A.O.B Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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