St Paul's Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Church hall.
St Paul's Church Hall
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-railing-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Church hall
- Address
- St Paul's Church Hall, Basingstoke Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 717 695
- Coordinates
- 51.42013, -0.96925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Paul's Church Hall is located on the corner of Whitley Woodhouse Lane and was designed by architect Henry Woodyer in 1859. It was used for services before the opening of Christ Church and was formerly a school and schoolhouse. The building is in the Gothic style, constructed from flint with Bath stone ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof. It has an 'L' plan layout and is one and two storeys high, with five asymmetrically placed gables on the front.
To the left, there is a schoolroom in a gabled break, which includes one-light moulded lancets with transoms. Adjacent to the right is a stepped chimney stack with datestones. Next to this is a wide gabled dormer that is half-hipped and has four cusped lancets. Centered to the right are a pair of gables with half-timbering above paired trefoil-headed windows. The right-hand gable extends to full height and features trefoil-headed lancets, with three on the first floor and four on the ground floor.
The entrance is located to the right of center, featuring a pointed arch in a thickened wall, and there is a tiled gabled projecting porch facing Basingstoke Road. The building has two chimneys and dated rainwater heads.
Local climate
St Paul's Church Hall receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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