Village Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1989. Village hall.
Village Hall
- WRENN ID
- south-bronze-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1989
- Type
- Village hall
- Address
- Village Hall, the Street, Walsham-Le-Willows
- OS grid reference
- TM 001 712
- Coordinates
- 52.30268, 0.93404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Hall, dated 1888, is a single-storey building constructed of Flemish bond red brick with white brick dressings. It features a fishscale slate roof adorned with fleur-de-lis cresting on the ridge tiles and moulded brick coping on the gable parapets, which include moulded brick kneelers. The east and west gables have chimneystacks with moulded white terracotta shafts. The north gable is topped with a wrought-iron weathervane, while the south gable has a small ball finial.
The building has a T-shaped, almost cruciform plan, with a porch at the main entrance in the northeast angle. The north front, facing the road, is asymmetrical, featuring a projecting gable-ended wing on the right. This wing includes a three-light ground floor window with a hood mould and a blocked round-headed opening above it, also with a hood mould and flanking ventilation slits. To the left are two-light windows, and there is a brick porch in the angle with a chamfered round arch on both sides, a ball finial on the corner of the parapet, and 19th-century panelled inner doors.
The left (east) gable end has two blind round-headed panels with linked hood moulds and a large fleur-de-lis in white brick above. The right (west) elevation is symmetrical and consists of three bays, with the central gabled bay projecting forward. This bay features a large blind round-headed panel with a hood mould and a large quatrefoil in white brick above. The flanking bays have two-light windows. At the centre of the plinth, there is a foundation stone inscribed 'Walsham Public Hall. This stone was laid by Richard Martineau, President of the Walsham Institute .... 1888'. The south gable end has a two-light window with margin panes and two lancets in the gable above, all set in white brick surrounds. All windows are from the 19th century and have thin moulded wooden mullions and transom bars. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Village Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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