Village Hall, Folla Rule is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 November 2000. Village hall.

Village Hall, Folla Rule

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 November 2000
Type
Village hall
OS grid reference
NJ 731 330
Coordinates
57.38668, -2.44872
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Village Hall at Folla Rule, dated 1904, is a single-storey building with a taller arm featuring an attic, designed in a shallow L-plan with gabled roofs. It is notable for its corrugated-iron construction and distinctive 'Central European' carvings, along with applied mock timber framing. The building has a stone base course or plinth and carved timber architraves around its openings, with some lintels serving as hoodmoulds, and features bargeboarding.

The principal elevation consists of five bays, with a projecting gabled porch on the outer left and a projecting bay on the outer right. The porch includes a wide doorway with multi-panelled two-leaf doors and a mock cross beam above, which is carved with the date. There is a narrow window on the return of the porch. The central section has three two-light windows, while the gabled bay on the right has a panelled door at ground level and an attic window above, along with a window on the return.

The rear elevation also has five bays, with four bays in the centre and right featuring windows. The outer left bay is gabled, containing a door and window at ground level and an attic window above.

The gabled end elevation includes a window. The timber windows are mostly designed with smaller eight- or ten-pane upper sections and two-pane lower sections, as well as some with four-pane upper sections and plate glass lower sections, along with later plate glass and bipartite windows. The roof is made of painted red corrugated iron, featuring a small brick stack and a conical metal ventilator at the main ridge, with a second ventilator missing. Some timber rafters are exposed where bargeboarding is absent.

Inside, the hall showcases good quality timber work, including a sprung floor and timber lining. The interior includes a stage, kitchen, cloakroom, toilets, and a library, along with attic rooms used for storing stage scenery.

Local climate

Village Hall, Folla Rule receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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