The Victorian Hall and Railed Forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Village hall. 2 related planning applications.

The Victorian Hall and Railed Forecourt

WRENN ID
still-rotunda-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1989
Type
Village hall
Address
The Victorian Hall and Railed Forecourt, Rye Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 4ET
OS grid reference
TQ 761 305
Coordinates
51.04722, 0.51111
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Victorian Hall and railed forecourt is a village hall built in 1875 by architect Alfred Williams. It is constructed of red brick, featuring some tile hanging and a plain tiled roof. The building is a single-storey hall with a two-storey service end. It has a large gabled roof with a string course and buttresses, an apsidal outshot to the left, and two gabled semi-dormers at the center. To the right, there is a canted two-storey bay with a bargeboard and pendant, as well as a stack at the end right that has a moulded and arcaded pair of flues. The windows in the semi-dormers and bay are mullioned and transomed, with the bay featuring side windows on the first floor. There are gabled porches on both the left and right sides, each with mullioned fanlights and moulded depressed-arched doorways that lead to panelled doors. A terracotta plaque to the left of the right-hand porch is inscribed with "Lecture Hall." The left return gable includes pigeon-holes, while the right return and part of the right end of the front elevation are tile hung, with a terracotta plaque on the chimneystack inscribed "18 HM 75." The rear elevation is irregular. The hall is set behind a railed forecourt, which has a low brick wall and simple iron rails, with the principals bifurcated with knibbed scrolls.

Local climate

The Victorian Hall and Railed Forecourt receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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