Village Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Village hall.
Village Hall
- WRENN ID
- unlit-pier-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Village hall
- Address
- Village Hall, High Street, Old Warden
- OS grid reference
- TL 138 439
- Coordinates
- 52.08257, -0.34054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Hall, formerly a Reading Room, dates from 1901, as indicated by the datestone and the Shuttleworth emblem. It is designed in a picturesque Tudor style. The building features a high red brick plinth, with the upper exterior finished in pebbledash render and applied timber framing. The roof is covered with 20th-century tiles.
The structure is a rectangular block with a half-hipped roof, a projecting central gable, and lower lean-to blocks at both ends. It consists of one storey and attics, with a symmetrical front elevation. The central gable window and the two flanking windows are all five-light mullion and transom windows, featuring Tudor arches under square heads. Each lean-to block has a Tudor arched doorway. The central gable is adorned with decorative panel framing and pierced wavy-edged bargeboards, which include a drop finial. At the center of the gable, there is a small octagonal lantern topped with a domed roof and finial.
Local climate
Village 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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