Cuxham Church Hall

Cuxham Church Hall is a building originally constructed as a national school around 1850, with later additions made in 1911 and the 1960s. It is built from red brick with blue headers in Flemish bond, featuring biscuit-coloured brick dressings. The roofs are covered with terracotta spade-shaped tiles and plain tiles, and there are brick chimneys. The hall is a single storey with three bays and a central gabled porch, while a fourth bay was added on the left in 1911, along with two flat-roofed extensions to the rear in the 1960s.

The building has a plinth, and the porch features a chamfered pointed-arched entrance, terracotta kneelers, verges, and a finial, along with a plain-tile roof and a tiled floor. The windows consist of paired trefoil-headed lights with iron saddle bars and diagonally-leaded glazing. The original roof is adorned with spade-shaped tiles and a roll-moulded ridge, while the extensions have plain tiles. Each return has a similar window with three stepped lights, a transom, and a central casement, along with a decorative iron grille in the gable.

At the rear, there are two external stacks, one of which was added later, featuring dentilled cornices and diagonally-set flues. Inside, there is a bricked-up fireplace at the center of the original section, along with an added bolection-moulded fireplace. The roof features corbelled trusses, and the original roof members, including principal rafters, common rafters, purlins, and ridge-piece, are made of flat iron bars sandwiched between terracotta blocks, with the spade-shaped tiles bedded onto plain tiles. A former partition divided the building into two sections, and this division is still visible in the roof space, which includes a pointed-arched wooden window with mullions and a transom.

Cuxham Church Hall is a well-preserved mid-19th century national school, notable for its unusual roof construction.