Village Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 September 1995. Farmhouse.

Village Hall

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 September 1995
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a Victorian village hall, originally built as a school. The building dates from the First Pointed Gothic style. It consists of a single-story main hall with a two-story schoolhouse at the east end, featuring an asymmetrical gable. A long, slated, lean-to porch extends from the front elevation, designed as a pentice with brackets. The building is constructed from coursed limestone with a steeply pitched, slated roof (now with synthetic slates). Stone corbels sit at the eaves.

The front elevation is lit by an arcade of five trefoil-headed lancet windows, fitted with plain glazing and fixed two-pane lights, with carved zig-zag decoration above and a hoodmould. Between the second and third, and fourth and fifth lancets, the arcading descends to form a plain round shaft with a complexly moulded capital. Above the porch, a pair of two-pane sash windows sit beneath a two-centred, voussoired arch with polychromy and a hoodmould bearing an inscription in the tympanum: "Train the child in the way he should go." The asymmetrical coped gable features dog-tooth decoration to the verge and a carved finial depicting the Archangel Gabriel. Original boarded doors, complete with Gothic door furniture, lead into the hall, alongside a pair of two-pane sash windows to the right. A single trefoil-headed lancet is set into the lean-to, with a voussoired arch and polychromy above. The east elevation displays a pair of decorative, dressed stone chimney stacks in a medieval style, with octagonal bases and twin shafts. A high-set triple square-headed light is present on the gable end, featuring C12-style round shafts as mullions, now blocked, with an ashlar stack rising from the coped gable and pierced by a small trefoil-headed lancet. The west gable has a pair of later lancets set beneath a relieving arch with a cinquefoil in a roundel above. An octagonal shafted chimney rises from the coped gable. A later, single-story, gabled addition of late Victorian character is situated to the west, intersecting the buttressing on the southwest corner. The rear elevation has a small slated lean-to outshut and is otherwise unlit.

The interior is simple, with a plain boarded ceiling. The decorative element is the arcading to the rear of the lancet windows on the front elevation, featuring simple shafts with nail-head decoration on the capitals, matching those on the exterior.

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