The Victoria Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 2001. Concert hall.
The Victoria Hall
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-flagstone-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 2001
- Type
- Concert hall
- Address
- The Victoria Hall, Kirkgate, Settle
- OS grid reference
- SD 818 636
- Coordinates
- 54.06883, -2.279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Victoria Hall is a concert hall built around 1852, with alterations made around 1910 and 1930, and restored in 2000. It is constructed of coursed stone with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs.
The main street facade features three windows, with the central section slightly projecting. The sides have rusticated quoins. There is a central round-headed door with a rusticated surround, double panelled doors, and a plain fanlight above. Smaller round-headed doorways with flush ashlar surrounds are located on either side, leading to blind arches with notice boards. The ground floor has glazed canopies supported by ornate iron brackets and a moulded ashlar cornice. On the first floor, there are three tall glazing bar sash windows with ashlar surrounds and flat moulded hoods; the central window has a cornice and a small round-headed window above it. The facade is topped with a shallow open gable featuring plain wooden barge boards.
The side facades are simpler, with five large margin light sashes and smaller glazing bar sashes. Inside, there is a fine original coved plaster ceiling, with a stage added at one end around 1910, featuring a painted proscenium arch, and a gallery added at the other end around 1930.
Local climate
The Victoria Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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