Memorial Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Village hall.
Memorial Hall
- WRENN ID
- open-baluster-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Village hall
- Address
- Memorial Hall, the Green, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 808 328
- Coordinates
- 51.06666, 0.57977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Memorial Hall, formerly known as the Old Village Hall, is a former village hall now used as offices. It was built in 1908 as a monument to the 1st Earl of Cranbrook and is designed in the Queen Anne style. The building features a pebbledashed exterior with brick dressings and a tiled roof, which is topped with two brick chimneystacks. It has a T-shaped layout and is a single storey high, with elaborate curved gables at each end that include oval windows and pilasters. There are two 4-light mullioned windows on the facade. The central projecting brick porch has a curved gable adorned with a metal weather vane, an elaborate coat of arms, and a plaque above the doorcase, which has an eared architrave and oval side windows. The plaque reads, "To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Gathorne 1st Earl of Cranbrook. This hall is erected by relatives, friends and fellow parishioners A.D. 1908." It also includes the Latin inscription "SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS CIRCUMSPICE."
Local climate
Memorial Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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