Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1995. Hall.

Church Hall

WRENN ID
tattered-pinnacle-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1995
Type
Hall
Address
Church Hall, Barmouth, LL42 1AF
OS grid reference
SH 612 159
Coordinates
52.72329, -4.05536
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a single-storey church hall built in the vernacular Tudorbethan style. It has a rectangular plan with a projection at the east end that is advanced and gabled to the south. The building is constructed of snecked dressed slate-stone with red sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. The hall has a simple slate-hung louvre with feathered eaves and a lead ball finial, along with a plain tapered and banded chimney at the east end. The west gable is crow-stepped and includes a 10-light mullioned and transomed window arranged in a stepped pattern of 7 and 3, topped by a wide segmental relieving arch.

Beneath this gable is a low single-storey projection with crow-stepped ends, the southern end forming a gabled porch entrance. The central entrance features a depressed arch with modern boarded doors, flanked by mullioned windows; a 2-light window on the left and a 3-light window on the right.

The south face of the building is nearly symmetrical, with an advanced gabled porch that has a ball finial at the apex and gently splayed flush buttresses on either side. The plain round-arched entrance has half-round moulding, with a returned label that continues upwards in a rectangle to enclose a relief plaque displaying a heraldic device and the inscription: 'Church Hall, Anno Christi MCMX.' Inside, there are contemporary double doors with vertical moulded panels and glazed arched central lights, flanked by blind square panels, and topped with dentilated hood and cill mouldings.

To the right of the porch are four bays of the main hall. The two central bays are step-gabled, each with ball finials and 6-light windows featuring upper mullions in baluster form. Stepped buttresses divide these bays, while the flanking bays are lower and ungabled, each with 4-light windows that have segmental heads. All the windows are leaded. To the right, there is an advanced bay that balances the porch, also gabled, featuring a plain 4-light window with a chamfered entrance to the right, both having flat labels. There is a recessed, part-glazed 9-panel door.

Inside, the hall has a four-bay structure with wide segmental trusses supported by corbels. There is a large stage at the east end, and throughout the building, there are contemporary 9-panelled doors with simple Art Nouveau doorcases and door furniture, along with a boarded dado featuring a moulded rail.

Local climate

Church Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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