Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Church hall.
Church Hall
- WRENN ID
- north-obsidian-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Church hall
- Address
- Church Hall, Lower Road, East Farleigh, ME15 0JL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 733 532
- Coordinates
- 51.25237, 0.48331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church Hall, originally a national school, was built in the mid-19th century, specifically by 1866, by J. Clarke. It is constructed from uncoursed ragstone with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. The building is oriented at right angles to the road and has a front gable end with a short, slightly recessed wing to the right and another short wing towards the rear on the long left side.
The structure is two storeys tall, standing on a chamfered stone plinth. It has two moulded stone string courses that create a band between the storeys on the gable end, with an additional lower string course on the right wing. The right wing has lower eaves, and the gable is stone-coped with kneelers, featuring angled projections and a fleur-de-lys finial. Similar gables adorn the wings.
A slightly projecting stone stack is located at the angle with the left wing. The tall window on the gable end consists of three cusped lights with a sexfoil and hoodmould. The ground-floor window features three stepped lights set in a moulded pointed-arched recess. The first-floor window in the right wing has three stepped Caernavon-arched lights, while a cusped lancet window is found on the ground floor.
To the left, there is a slightly recessed stone lean-to with a boarded door, and a taller doorway is positioned in the right wing. A bell-cote is situated on the right gable end. The right return elevation of the main range has four ground-floor windows similar to the gable end's ground-floor window, alternating with buttresses. The first floor features groups of lancets and a central dormer. A two-storey turret is located at the north-west corner, linked by a cat-walk. The interior has not been inspected. This building replaced a school designed by Butterfield, which was built in 1846.
Local climate
Church Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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