Dining Hall, approximately 30 metres to north west of Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, Bradfield College is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1971. Dining hall.
Dining Hall, approximately 30 metres to north west of Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, Bradfield College
- WRENN ID
- over-plinth-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1971
- Type
- Dining hall
- Address
- Dining Hall, approximately 30 metres to north west of Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, Bradfield College, RG7 6AU
- OS grid reference
- SU 604 725
- Coordinates
- 51.44908, -1.13181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dining Hall at Bradfield College, located approximately 30 metres northwest of the Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, was built in 1856 by Sir George Gilbert Scott in a neo-Gothic style. The structure is made of flint with brick dressings, lacing courses, diaper work, tiled window heads, and angle buttresses, with elements of Bath stone. It features an old tile roof with catslides over the aisles and four five-cusped leaded light triangular dormers on the north and south sides. The hall consists of four bays with aisles, including four three-light 20th-century windows on the south side, two two-light windows on the east side with a circular sexafoil window in the gable above, and a cusped lancet at the end of the south aisle. The west side has triple lancets with a circular sexafoil window in the gable above and a cusped lancet at the end of the south aisles.
Inside, the hall features coupled roof trusses with double-braced tile beams, queen posts, and longitudinally braced king posts that rise from collars. There is a doorway on the west side with a carved lintel and a Greek inscription, and a fireplace on the north side with a large stone hood supported by shafts with carved capitals.
The stained glass includes east windows by Wailes and west windows by Burne-Jones from 1859, noted for their strong colors and advanced designs for the period.
Local climate
Dining Hall, approximately 30 metres to north west of Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, Bradfield College receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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