Former Drill Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1996. Drill hall.
Former Drill Hall
- WRENN ID
- scarred-balcony-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1996
- Type
- Drill hall
- Address
- Former Drill Hall, Berkeley Vale, Falmouth
- OS grid reference
- SW 804 327
- Coordinates
- 50.15397, -5.07436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Drill Hall in Falmouth, built in 1874, now serves as an indoor market. It was designed to accommodate 1,000 people and features a structure made of killas rubble with granite dressings, topped by a dry Delabole slate roof that has a gable end facing the street and three linked hipped roofs over the wings on the right. The front gable is coped. The building is in a Gothic style with some classical elements, presenting a symmetrical three-bay front. This includes a large traceried rose window above a pair of round-arched doorways with carved capitals and imposts on clustered shafts. Above these is a name panel, while the flanking bays feature two-light transomed round-arched windows under hood-moulds, all framed by pilasters with carved and moulded imposts leading to segmental arches. The slender mullions have carved capitals, and behind them are hornless sash windows with glazing bars and fanlight heads. The rear of the building has a central rose window with latticed glazing. Inside, there are wide-span tie-rod roof trusses and a gallery at the front end.
Local climate
Former Drill Hall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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