The Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. Church hall. 1 related planning application.
The Church Hall
- WRENN ID
- solemn-bailey-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Church hall
- Address
- The Church Hall, Church Street, Ilchester, BA22 8LX
- OS grid reference
- ST 522 225
- Coordinates
- 51.00076, -2.68197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church Hall, located on Church Street, is a former school that was built in 1837. It is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared, with ham stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof that has a shallow pitch between coped gables. The building features brick chimney stacks set on a stone base and is two storeys high with a single bay.
The façade includes three-light hollow chamfer mullioned windows that have cinquefoil cusped heads, positioned under flat arches with square labels. There are signs of a blocked doorway to the left, and above this doorway, there is a rectangular plaque, although no inscription is visible. The north elevation, which faces the churchyard, has similar windows, and the north gable is topped with an elaborate finial. The interior has not been seen. Originally founded as the Ilchester National School in 1837, it became an infants-only school in 1878 and was closed in 1962 when the building was sold to the Parochial Church Council.
Local climate
The Church Hall receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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