Village Hall
VILLAGE HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350356
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Village Hall
- Statutory Address:
- VILLAGE HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350356
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Village Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- VILLAGE HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- VILLAGE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lower Slaughter
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 16481 22538
Details
LOWER SLAUGHTER
1654/0/10001 Village hall
11-JUN-03
II
Village reading room, now village hall, dated 1887, by Thomas Colcutt.
EXTERIOR: Cotswold vernacular revival style constructed of regularly coursed and dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; graded stone slate roof, hipped to right end, gableted to left with lower roughly central gable to front; stone slates replaced by concrete tiles to rear. Front (street) elevation has corbelled gable roughly to centre with clock in recessed panel and datestone (1887) above to apex; lower section of gable has canted bay with mullioned and transomed window divided into 15 leaded lights flanked by cross windows to the returns; similar 3-light mullioned and transomed leaded windows to either side in main wall and small 2-light mullioned window tucked beneath eaves to far right. Entrance to left through 4-centred arch with hoodmould and decorative wrought-iron gates. Left gable end has close-studded timber frame to apex; gabled bellcote to right end wall has louvres and stack breaking through its gable.
INTERIOR: Main body of hall is little altered, retaining its original curved principal roof in 3 bays with stone corbels and curved windbraces to 2 tiers of purlins. On the rear wall a moulded segmental-arched recess, corresponding with a similar recess to the bay window in the front wall, houses a fireplace (now infilled) with blue and white tile inserts. War memorials on carved wooden boards to either side of moulded segmental arch leading to entrance lobby. At the opposite end of the hall hangs a drop scene of the village painted for a theatrical performance held in the building in 1888.
HISTORY: Built in 1887-8 at the cost of ?516, raised by a combination of public subscription and a gift of ?100 plus the land on which it stands, from Charles Whitmore, lord of the manor, the reading room was opened by him in October 1888. Its opening hours were 5pm to 9.30pm on weekdays and 2pm to 5pm on Sundays. Membership was restricted to men and youths and cost 2d per month. Its original use having declined by the 1920s, the reading room became the village hall, in which use it remains. The building was fully repaired in 2002. Built in Cotswold vernacular revival style with high quality detailing, it forms an integral part of the village street scene and part of an attractive grouping with adjoining listed buildings.
SOURCES: D. Verey & A. Brooks, The Buildings of England, Gloucestershire 1: the Cotswolds (1999), p.463, where it is incorrectly referred to as the village hall.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490167
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970), 463
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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