Womens Institute Hall (formerly the Corn Exchange) is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1988. Meeting hall. 1 related planning application.
Womens Institute Hall (formerly the Corn Exchange)
- WRENN ID
- riven-render-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Meeting hall
- Address
- Womens Institute Hall (formerly the Corn Exchange), West Street, SS4 1BH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 875 905
- Coordinates
- 51.58217, 0.70615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Women's Institute Hall, formerly known as the Corn Exchange, is a meeting hall built around 1866 by F. Chancellor. It is constructed of striated yellow brick and features a grey slate roof with continuous raised lights at the apex. This tall single-storey building has a gabled front facing the road, with a raised and gabled apex. It is adorned with moulded and dentilled cornices and moulded stone terminals. The raised apex includes side bands and a roundel set within a recessed arch. An ornate wrought iron bracket supports a double-faced memorial clock commemorating Queen Victoria's Jubilee on June 22, 1897.
The façade features three continuous recessed arches with striated round heads, each decorated with central and base flower panels, foliate capitals, and moulded bases for the attached shafts, along with flower-decorated impost roundels surrounding the windows and central doors. The windows are vertically sliding sashes topped with round-headed fanlights. The entrance consists of panelled double doors with an ornate wrought iron round-headed grille above.
Local climate
Womens Institute Hall (formerly the Corn Exchange) receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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