Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1976. Town hall. 19 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- outer-gutter-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1976
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, Cross Hayes, Malmesbury, SN16 9BZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 933 871
- Coordinates
- 51.5836, -2.09684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall in Malmesbury was built in 1854, with an extension added in 1927, and incorporates elements from the 17th century at the rear. The building features a squared, coursed limestone facade, with coursed rubble and dressings on the returns and rear, along with ashlar gable stacks and a stone slate roof. It is designed in the Tudor Revival style and has a double-depth plan.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a three-window range, with a three-storey, three-window range extension on the left. The symmetrical front displays diagonal buttresses, a first-floor drip mould, a cornice, a central coped gable, and coped end gables. The ground floor has four-centre arched openings with drips, a narrower opening on the left that features a central doorway with a ridge door, and a three-light mullion and transom window on the right. The tall second-floor flat-headed window includes nine-light mullion and transom windows, and there is a central twelve-light canted oriel with a moulded base and top.
The right-hand return gables have moulded stacks, while the rear elevation includes a 17th-century two-storey tower with a small four-centre arched doorway. The right-hand extension has wide four-centre arched ground-floor openings, three-light and a central first-floor four-light mullion windows, along with a central gable and finial. The left-hand return mirrors this with a similar two-window arrangement.
Inside, the Town Hall has been largely remodelled in the mid-20th century, featuring a first-floor hall with a proscenium arch.
Local climate
Town Hall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 19 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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