Athelstan Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1994. House, technical college annexe, offices.
Athelstan Hall
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-loggia-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1994
- Type
- House, technical college annexe, offices
- Address
- Athelstan Hall, 76, Aylestone Hill, Hereford
- OS grid reference
- SO 522 409
- Coordinates
- 52.06469, -2.69778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Athelstan Hall is a house that now serves as a Technical College Annexe and offices. It was built in the mid-19th century and features dressed stone with a hipped Welsh slate roof and various dressed stone stacks with ashlar detailing.
The building has two storeys and a cellar, with a three-window range consisting of 2/2 sash windows that have cambered heads in moulded stone architraves. The eaves are supported by stone brackets. The central entrance is marked by a portico that includes an entablature and balustrade, supported by plain and fluted columns. The entrance features a six-fielded panel door with a blocked overlight, flanked by 2/2 sash windows that have moulded hoods on scrolled consoles. The exterior is finished with quoins and a moulded plinth.
On the right side of the building, there are three 2/2 sash windows, along with a sash window and a canted bay with casement windows. The left side features additional 2/2 sash windows and a stucco service wing. At the rear, there is another central entrance with six fielded panel double doors and sidelights, along with a tripartite window that has a combination of 1/1, 2/2, and 1/1 sashes, flanked by more 2/2 sash windows.
Inside, the hall features a stone dogleg staircase with cast-iron balusters and a moulded rail, as well as a winder stair at the rear with stick and turned balusters. The attic also has a winder stair. On the first floor, there are four-panel doors with architraves, ceiling cornices, beaded arches, tiled utilities, slate fireplaces, a wood fireplace, skirtings, a marble fireplace, radiators, and architraves around the windows. The ground floor includes tiled utilities, four-panel doors with architraves, a 20th-century wood fireplace, cornices, friezes, ceiling roses, marble fireplaces, a panelled arch to the bay, alcoves, picture rails, and a coloured glass screen with double doors leading to the hall. The cellar contains a six-panel door, two four-panel doors, plank doors, brick floors, and stone and brick-lined vaults.
Local climate
Athelstan Hall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% 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 86% 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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