Masonic Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1973. House, offices.
Masonic Hall
- WRENN ID
- under-glass-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1973
- Type
- House, offices
- Address
- Masonic Hall, South Street, Leominster
- OS grid reference
- SO 495 588
- Coordinates
- 52.22519, -2.73934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Masonic Hall, originally a house and outbuildings, is now used as offices. It dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century and is constructed of brick with a hipped Welsh slate roof and two brick ridge stacks.
The building has two storeys and a cellar, featuring an 11-window range. This includes eight 6/6 sash windows and, to the left, two 20th-century leaded mullion lights. The windows are topped with gauged brick segmental arches, and there is a brick modillion eaves. The entrance is located to the centre right and consists of a 6-moulded-panel door with a coloured margin-glazed overlight in round-headed panelled reveals. This is set beneath a moulded and modillioned wood open-pediment hood supported by entablature blocks with triglyphs and attached Tuscan columns. To the right of the entrance are four late 19th-century 6/6 sash windows under gauged brick flat arches, while to the left are two more.
There is a carriageway with plank double doors beneath an elliptical gauged brick arch. To the extreme left, there are central double doors with an overlight under a moulded wood pediment on fluted pilasters, flanked by 20th-century cross-windows with leaded lights under gauged brick segmental arches, and a tablet featuring a square and compasses above. The carriageway also includes a part-glazed 6-panel door in a reeded architrave with paterae.
The right side of the building is roughcast and features a 20th-century shop window, along with a wing that has a 6/6 sash window and a 3/6 sash above a 20th-century entrance. The eaves on this side are also brick modillioned.
At the rear, there are three 6/6 sashes, an 8/8 sash, and a 10/10 sash, all under gauged brick segmental arches. There is a 6-panel door with a margin-glazed overlight in round-headed panelled reveals, also under an open-pediment hood on scrolled brackets, along with 8/8 and 8/4 sashes. A wing at the rear has two cross-windows in moulded cases under gauged brick segmental arches, and a 20th-century door in an earlier case beneath a cambered hood, with a large window under a gauged brick arch to the left.
Inside, the building features a 19th-century open-well staircase with stick balusters and a cluster-newel, along with 6-panel doors that have fluted architraves and a margin-glazed fanlight.
Local climate
Masonic Hall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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