Village Hall is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1989. Village hall.
Village Hall
- WRENN ID
- ancient-chalk-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1989
- Type
- Village hall
- Address
- Village Hall, Kelmscott
- OS grid reference
- SU 249 992
- Coordinates
- 51.6912, -1.64063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Hall in Kelmscott was built in 1934, designed by Ernest Gimson, and features regularly coursed limestone rubble with alternating angle quoins and a stone slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan and is one storey high, with an attic in the projecting gabled range on the right.
The main range has a square-headed double door made of planks located to the far left, which is sheltered by a flat-pedimented stone hood supported by brackets. To the center and right of the door, there are three-light mullion windows with dripstones. The projecting range on the right includes a four-light mullion window with a dripstone and a narrow round-headed rectangular slit opening at the apex.
On the left side, there is a similar doorway to the main range, positioned at an angle, featuring a chamfered lintel with straight-cut stops and a flat stone hood supported by a stone corner post. A stone bench is attached to the right of this doorway. Above the bench, there is a four-light mullion window with a dripstone, and all windows are fitted with leaded lights.
At the front gable, there is a stone inscribed with "WH/1834-1934." The right side of the building has a battered external lateral stack with two attached and rebated shafts, along with an integral end stack to the right of the main range.
A public appeal for funds to construct the village hall was initiated in 1928, and the building was officially opened by George Bernard Shaw in 1934.
Local climate
Village Hall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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