Burghclere’s Portal Hall building to have defective iron gutters replaced with new cast aluminium deep flow gutters

Plans to replace defective iron down pipes and gutters on a listed building in Burghclere with new cast aluminium deep flow gutters have been approved.

Burghclere Parish Council, acting as the sole trustee of the Pinder Recreational Trust charity, which looks after the village’s hall known as the Portal Hall, applied to make the improvements in September.

Portal Hall is a Grade II-listed building on Church Lane that was built in 1890 when it was agreed to build a memorial to the late Canon Portal, who died in 1899.

The improvement project will see the current pipes and gutters – which have become defective in protecting the fabric of the building – with new cast aluminium deep flow gutters that are better-suited to the increased levels of rain fall the area now sees due to climate change.

As part of the plans, existing dated decorative rainwater hoppers will also be restored.

The parish council also recently completed plans to replace the hall’s critical style windows with timber windows to match the hall’s original style under an approved listed buildings application.