Overbury Village Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Village hall. 1 related planning application.
Overbury Village Hall
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Village hall
- Address
- Overbury Village Hall, GL20 7NT
- OS grid reference
- SO 958 374
- Coordinates
- 52.03574, -2.06224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Overbury Village Hall is a village hall built between 1895 and 1896 by architect Richard Norman Shaw for Robert Martin. It is constructed of snecked dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a machine-tiled roof with overhanging bracketed eaves, gable-end parapets, and an ashlar ridge stack with moulded capping. The building has a cruciform plan, with the main range oriented north to south and small wings to the west and east, along with an east porch. It is a single-storey structure with dormers and a chamfered plinth.
The main east elevation includes a prominent 6-light chamfered mullioned window with a king mullion and transom to the right of the porch. There are three flat-roofed dormers featuring moulded cornices and 6-light wood mullioned windows with a transom, where the outer lights are canted. The east porch has a shallow-pitched gabled lead roof with a segmental-headed gable-end parapet, which sweeps upwards at both ends and is topped with a ball finial. It also includes a moulded plinth and impost band, along with a wide round-headed moulded archway that has large alternating voussoirs resembling a Gibbs surround. A small rectangular light is located on the left side of the porch.
To the north of the wing, there is a 2-light chamfered mullioned window and a doorway with a four-centred head. The east wing features a large 6-light chamfered mullioned window in its gable end, which has a king mullion and a transom. The lintel of this window bears the inscription, "ERECTED BY ROBERT MARTIN IN THE YEAR 1896," and there is a blank square datestone at the gable apex. The south gable end has a central buttress flanked by tall 3-light mullioned windows, divided into nine lights by two transoms. The north gable end includes a rectangular light and a 6-light window similar to those on the east elevation, with a 4-light and a 2-light mullioned window above in the gable apex.
Local climate
Overbury Village 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 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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