John Halle's Hall (Now Forming Entrance to the Odeon Cinema) is a Grade I listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1952. A C15 Hall. 3 related planning applications.

John Halle's Hall (Now Forming Entrance to the Odeon Cinema)

WRENN ID
stranded-span-rowan
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 February 1952
Type
Hall
Address
John Halle's Hall (Now Forming Entrance to the Odeon Cinema), New Canal, Salisbury, SP1 2AA
OS grid reference
SU 144 299
Coordinates
51.06835, -1.79483
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

John Halle's Hall, now serving as the entrance to The Odeon Cinema, dates back to the 15th century, with a front that was imitated in timber in 1881. The building features an elaborate framework, stands three storeys high with gables, and is adorned with ornate carved bargeboards and a finial. It has eight light lattice casements on both floors, pargetting on the side panels, and carved beam ends that extend over the edges.

The remains of the Hall include a two-storey outer lobby, which is the current entrance to the cinema, constructed in a restored timber-framed style. This lobby has an open gallery on the first floor and a heavily beamed ceiling. It leads into the Hall, which retains much of its original character. The Hall itself is two storeys high with an open timber roof featuring an elaborate cusped bracing pattern on the purlins, supported by moulded pointed arched beams. The east wall contains original tall stone mullioned windows with modern lead lights, and there is one smaller similar window on the west wall. From the Hall, two doors open into a lower inner room that has a heavy moulded beamed ceiling.

The exterior of the east front is made of ashlar stone and features two moulded stone mullioned windows with pointed arched cusped heads set within a rectangular frame of coved moulding, along with a small arched door to the left, which has a similar design and a trefoil spandrel ornament. The west side of the Hall is constructed of brick and flint, with one small stone mullioned window on the left, also featuring pointed cusped heads. The Hall is topped with an old tile roof.

John Halle's Hall and Nos 17 and 19 form a group.

Local climate

John Halle's Hall (Now Forming Entrance to the Odeon Cinema) receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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