Schoolroom and Meeting Hall is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1973. Church, meeting hall.
Schoolroom and Meeting Hall
- WRENN ID
- weathered-floor-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1973
- Type
- Church, meeting hall
- Address
- Schoolroom and Meeting Hall, Hamlet Road, Haverhill
- OS grid reference
- TL 675 451
- Coordinates
- 52.07967, 0.44331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a Congregational church, now functioning as a meeting hall, constructed in 1840. It is made of gault brick with red-brick dressings and has a roof covered with concrete tiles.
On the exterior, the entrance is located in the south gable and features a central gabled porch with a shouldered parapet. This porch contains an arched door flanked by single lancet windows. The main elevation has a tall lancet window on either side of the porch, and above the porch is a stepped triplet of lancets with an oculus above. The gable is adorned with a saw-toothed cornice, and the surviving original windows showcase intersecting tracery in their heads. The building has 6-bay returns, with each bay separated by buttress piers, featuring multiple-paned windows on the ground floor and Y-traceried upper windows.
Inside, there are galleries on all four sides supported by cast-iron reeded columns, which rise to cast-iron balustrading. The roof is scissor-braced and boarded. At the north end, there is a raised dais with three bays of blind arcading that includes modified stiff-leaf decoration.
Local climate
Schoolroom and Meeting 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% 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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