Forest Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1952. A Georgian Hall.
Forest Hall
- WRENN ID
- over-jade-cobweb
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1952
- Type
- Hall
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Forest Hall, Birmingham Road, Meriden
- OS grid reference
- SP 235 825
- Coordinates
- 52.44009, -1.65549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forest Hall is a building designed by Joseph Bonomi and constructed in 1788 for the Woodmen of Arden archery club, which was founded in 1785. It features a stone hipped roof with Welsh slates and wide bracketed eaves. The building is a single storey with a central canted bay and three tall round-arched French windows on either side, complete with shutters. Inside, there are two large rooms: one original and one added as a ballroom in 1845. These rooms contain 18th-century busts, including a notable one of Wriothesley Digby by Nollekins, and feature ornamental plaster ceilings. Forest Hall, along with the Pavilion and Workshop, forms a cohesive group.
Local climate
Forest Hall receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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