The Village Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. A Georgian Village hall. 2 related planning applications.
The Village Hall
- WRENN ID
- guardian-corridor-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- Village hall
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Village Hall, Ansty Lane, Hilton, DT2 7PN
- OS grid reference
- ST 764 031
- Coordinates
- 50.8274, -2.33525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Hall is a former malthouse built in 1777 by Charles Hall, using materials from Higher Melcombe, Melcombe Horsey. It is now used as a village hall, having been converted for this purpose around 1948. The building features walls made of flint with stone banding and a chamfered plinth. It has a slate roof with coped gables and is a single-storey structure divided into two sections.
The left section includes five 20th-century casement windows with lead lights set in stone surrounds that have projecting keystones. The right section has a raised centre section of the roof and features a gabled porch that is accessed by stone steps. The porch contains a round-arched doorway with a stone surround, a panelled door, and a fanlight above. To the left of the porch is one window similar to those in the left section, while to the right are two similar windows and one that has been altered to serve as a doorway.
At the rear, there is a wing with stone walls that are raised in brick and a slate roof. There are signs of a demolished building at the right end of this wing. The left gable wall has a circular window at a high level within a stone surround, and below this are two 2-light stone mullioned windows with lead lights.
Local climate
The Village Hall receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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