The Village Hall and Dunelm is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1987. School, village hall, youth hostel, house. 1 related planning application.
The Village Hall and Dunelm
- WRENN ID
- iron-cloister-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1987
- Type
- School, village hall, youth hostel, house
- Address
- The Village Hall and Dunelm, Main Street, Thixendale, YO17 9TG
- OS grid reference
- SE 841 610
- Coordinates
- 54.03897, -0.716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Hall and Dunelm is a building that originally served as a school, now functioning as a village hall and youth hostel, along with a schoolmaster's house. It was constructed between 1874 and 1875 by the architect G E Street for Sir Tatton Sykes. The structure is made of brick in English bond, featuring ashlar dressings, tile hanging, and a plain tile roof, topped with a Welsh slate bell-turret.
The building consists of a house on the left and a schoolroom on the right. It is two storeys high, with one first-floor window in the house and a single-storey schoolroom. The house has its gable end facing the street, with a 20th-century board door located under an extended gable roof, accompanied by a 4-light fixed window beneath a relieving arch to the right. There is a modern outshut to the left, and on the first floor, there is a 4-light casement window. The gable end is adorned with hung tiles, and a tall chimney rises from the ridge.
The schoolroom features two 3-light fixed windows set on a string course. To the left, there is a vestibule under a separate hipped roof, which includes a board door flanked by pointed windows. The roof of the schoolroom is steeply pitched, and it is topped with a tall bell-turret.
Local climate
The Village Hall and Dunelm receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 1 application
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