Guild Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1983. Community hall. 1 related planning application.

Guild Hall

WRENN ID
waning-frieze-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1983
Type
Community hall
Address
Guild Hall, Avenue Road, Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley, BB7 9QS
OS grid reference
SD 685 379
Coordinates
53.83713, -2.47979
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Guild Hall, now a Catholic social club, dates from around 1800. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features slate roofs. The building has a cruciform plan and consists of two storeys, with a central block that is taller and square in shape, topped by a pyramidal roof. The quoins are prominent and exhibit furrowed tooling. Each wing has two bays on the return walls, with windows that have plain reveals, tooled sills, and lintels. The first-floor windows on the west wall of the south-west wing are sashed and include glazing bars.

There are doors with plain stone surrounds located in the east wall of the north-east wing, in the gable of the south-east wing, and in the south wall of the north-west wing, although the latter has been blocked and replaced by a modern door at the angle with the adjoining wing. An external stone stair with a solid parapet is positioned against the gable of the south-west wing, leading to a first-floor door that has a plain stone surround. Due to the higher ground level, there is direct entry onto the first floor at the north-west gable, which serves as the main entrance. This entry is through a porch that features later 19th-century carved bargeboards and 20th-century extensions.

Local climate

Guild Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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