St Ethelreda's Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Church hall. 1 related planning application.

St Ethelreda's Church Hall

WRENN ID
moated-pilaster-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Church hall
Address
St Ethelreda's Church Hall, Church Street, AL9 5AR
OS grid reference
TL 234 084
Coordinates
51.76085, -0.21247
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Ethelreda's Church Hall, formerly known as Countess Anne's School, was built around 1840 for the 2nd Marchioness of Salisbury as a school she supported. The building is constructed of red brick and features a roof made of plain tiles and fish scale tiles, with parapeted and coped gable ends. It is designed in a Tudor style and has five 2-light cast iron twin casements with moulded brick mullions and surrounds. Between the windows, there are large stepped buttresses with tiled set-offs. On the right side, there is a Dutch-gabled porch that includes a 4-centre arched doorway and a door with original vertical panelling.

Local climate

St Ethelreda's Church Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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