Done Recreation Room is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1953. Parish room. 3 related planning applications.

Done Recreation Room

WRENN ID
stubborn-sandstone-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1953
Type
Parish room
Address
Done Recreation Room, High Street, Tarporley, CW6 0AG
OS grid reference
SJ 553 625
Coordinates
53.15782, -2.66968
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Done Recreation Room is a parish room built in 1636. It is constructed of red English bond brick with an ashlar plinth and quoins, topped with a slate roof. The building has two storeys, with the churchyard front featuring a diamond pattern created by blue headers. On the ground floor, there are two windows with moulded stone surrounds, each containing early 19th-century iron-framed fenestration with three lights. The first floor has two similar windows.

At mezzanine level to the left of the windows, there is a square armorial tablet with strapwork panels supporting an entablature and pediment that displays the date. To the right, also at mezzanine level and positioned between the windows, is another tablet with a moulded border that reads: "This School, erected in 1636/ by Dame Dorothy Done and/endowed by Mrs John Done in 1662/was thoroughly repaired by the/Trustees under the Will of/John Arden Esq decreased in the/Year 1830".

To the right of the main structure is a later stone lean-to, while to the left is another one-storey stone addition featuring arrow-head rustication and a central doorway with an ashlar surround and quirked bead at the inner angle. Above this doorway is a square stone tablet with a coat of arms and pilaster pieces on either side. The building has a ridge chimney at the center, and the left gable end includes a first-floor window with four early 19th-century lights and a moulded stone surround, with close-studding above the gable.

Local climate

Done Recreation Room receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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