Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1986. Church hall. 1 related planning application.
Church Hall
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-trefoil-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1986
- Type
- Church hall
- Address
- Church Hall, Hatley Road, Potton
- OS grid reference
- TL 227 494
- Coordinates
- 52.12972, -0.20749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church Hall, originally built as a school between 1845 and 1848, was founded by Reverend W C Bidwell and financed through public subscriptions. The building features walls made of small, elongated pieces of ironstone arranged in a herringbone pattern, with dressings of red and yellow mottled brick, and some ashlar work on the porch. It has a clay tiled roof accented with bands of fishscale tiles and is a single-storey rectangular structure.
The front elevation facing the road has three 3-light mullion and transom windows. A gabled porch, which extends above the eaves line, is positioned between the two left-hand windows and features a 4-centred doorway with a plank door. The gable is stone-coped, complete with kneelers and a finial. To the right, there is a smaller 4-centred doorway, also with a plank door, sheltered by a gabled hood supported by brackets. The right gable end showcases a large 4-light mullion and transom window, topped by a cambered relieving arch, along with a narrow single light window at the attic apex. A 20th-century addition is located at the rear. The building is included for its group value and for its distinctive treatment of materials characteristic of this area of the county.
Local climate
Church Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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