Temperance Hall and Attached Schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1971. Hall. 3 related planning applications.
Temperance Hall and Attached Schoolroom
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1971
- Type
- Hall
- Address
- Temperance Hall and Attached Schoolroom, Thomas Street, Cirencester, GL7 2AX
- OS grid reference
- SP 020 022
- Coordinates
- 51.71925, -1.97145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a Salvation Army Temperance Hall and attached schoolroom, built in 1846 for Christopher Bowly. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, with stone slates on the right side of the roof, artificial stone slates on the left, and a hipped roof to the rear schoolroom. The hall has truncated ashlar stacks to the left and right, and a rebuilt brick ridge stack to the schoolroom.
The hall itself is in a simple Gothic style, with a gabled front. It has a single storey and one window. A large pointed window with perpendicular tracery sits within a chamfered reveal and hoodmould. A full-width ashlar projection to the front, with a lean-to roof, forms a porch with higher stair turrets on either side. The porch features a pair of studded boarded doors with large scrolled strap hinges, set within a square-headed moulded stone surround, with a pointed head to the doorway. The spandrels of the pointed head are carved with the initials 'CB'. Leaded lancet windows are set in splayed reveals with hoodmoulds, flanking the door. Similar windows are found in the stair turrets. Decorative ribbon carving with the lettering 'CB AD 1846' is present, along with a lancet window with a trefoil head and splayed reveal. The gable has moulded stone coping with trefoil-headed stops on corbelled-out kneelers and ridge stops. The left-hand side of the building features four tall lancet windows with trefoil heads, articulated by buttresses and a central buttressed stack.
The schoolroom, likely built in the earlier 19th century, appears to the rear. Its north elevation (liturgical east) is two storeys and three windows. The first floor has a two-light and a three-light stone-mullion window, a similar single-light window, and an early diamond-pattern leaded light to the two left-hand lights of the three-light window to the right. The ground floor has a two-light stone mullion and transom window, a similar two-light window, and three single-light windows, some with 20th-century leaded lights. Four weathered buttresses are present on the ground floor. A 20th-century extension is attached to the right, and the interiors of the original building were not inspected.
Local climate
Temperance Hall and Attached Schoolroom 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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