Village Hall
VILLAGE HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367766
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Village Hall
- Statutory Address:
- VILLAGE HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367766
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1989
- 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:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelmscott
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 24937 99221
Details
KELMSCOTT SU2499-2599 10/68 Village Hall - II
Village hall. 1934 (datestone) to design by Ernest Gimson (d.1919). Regularly coursed limestone rubble with alternating angle quoins; stone slate roof. L-plan. One storey with attic to projecting gabled range on right. Main range: square-headed plank double door to far left under bracketed flat-pedimented stone hood. 3-light mullion windows with dripstones to centre and right. Projecting range to right has 4-light mullion window with dripstone and narrow round-headed rectangular slit opening to apex. Left return has similar doorway to main range in angle to left with straight-cut stops to chamfered lintel; flat stone hood supported by stone corner post to right with stone bench attached to right. 4-light mullion window with dripstone above bench, all windows with leaded lights. Stone inscribed "WH/1834-1934" at ground level to front gable. Right return has battered external lateral stack with 2 attached and rebated shafts; integral end stack to right of main range. Lower L-shaped range attached to right of main range. A public appeal for funds to build the village hall was launched in 1928 and the building was opened by George Bernard Shaw in 1934. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp666-7; A.R. Dufty: Kelmscott, An Illustrated Guide: (London, The Society of Antiquaries, 1984), p30) [2363]
Listing NGR: SU2493799221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253820
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dufty, A R, Kelmscott An Illustrated Guide, (1984), 30
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 666
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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