Village Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. Village hall, private residence. 5 related planning applications.
Village Hall
- WRENN ID
- tired-panel-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- Village hall, private residence
- Address
- Village Hall, Wilshaw Road, Meltham, HD9 4DX
- OS grid reference
- SE 117 096
- Coordinates
- 53.58368, -1.82345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Hall and adjacent private residence were originally built in 1873 by John Kirk for Joseph Hirst, and were initially a school and schoolmaster’s house. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with a pitched slate roof; the school section has shaped gables, large pyramidal finials, and one ball finial. The school is single-storey, while the house is two storeys high.
The school's front facade features a Tudor arched entrance with the inscription "St Mary's Schools," and formerly had a bell on a bracket above. There are three two-light chamfered windows to the left, one to the right, and a six-light mullioned and transomed window to the left gable. To the right of the school facade is the entrance to the house, and the gable end of the two-storey house. This gable features a shaped gable with a ball finial and a two-light chamfered window on each floor, with drip moulds and label stops.
The main facade of the house is symmetrical, with three bays and three two-light chamfered windows on each floor. The ground-floor windows have drip moulds, while the first-floor windows extend above the eaves level as dormers with gabled roofs.
Local climate
Village Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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