Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1976. Town hall. 5 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- twisted-parapet-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1976
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, the Strand, Calne, SN11 0EF
- OS grid reference
- ST 997 709
- Coordinates
- 51.43773, -2.00528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall in Calne was built between 1884 and 1886 by Oliver. It is constructed from squared, coursed limestone rubble and features a slate roof in the Tudor Revival style. The building has an irregular plan, which includes a council chamber on the left, a rear hall, a central clock tower with a carriage archway, and offices on the right along Patford Street. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a five-window range.
The front of the building is irregular, featuring a plinth, string courses, and coped gables with a parapet. The windows include mullion and transom designs, with a full-height gable on the left that has paired three-light windows on the ground floor, paired cross windows above a carved panel on the first floor, and a three-light attic mullion window beneath blind panelling. Below the clock tower is a Tudor-arched doorway, a nine-light first-floor stair window, and an ashlar clock tower that has a clock set in a shallow recess topped with a pyramidal roof. The wide Tudor-arched carriageway is accompanied by a six-light window, while the right-hand section has eight-light and three-light windows beneath a pair of small gables.
Inside, the Town Hall features an open-well stair with a lift, a panelled council chamber, and a rear meeting hall.
Local climate
Town Hall receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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