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Summary

Probable former church house of possible 16th century origin. There is a first floor doorway which may have been the original access to the first floor it it were originally a church house.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1227876: CHURCH HOUSE

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX75NW/3

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CHURCH HOUSE (Built, XVI to XVII - 1501 AD to 1700 AD (Between))

Full description

PEARSON, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV11952.

East of the churchyard and partly below the level of the public road to the north is a rectangular, 2 storeyed building with a corrugated asbestos roof. The front, facing south, is of 3 bays, the upper storey and the east end slate hung. At the left is a cart shed at right angles and with a slate hipped roof. In process of restoration. New windows have been inserted. There is a small front porch with a small window south and a plain east doorway with a pent-roof. The walls are of rubble masonry, with traces of a blocked doorway in front, to the east. On the west gable is an old chimney stack of rough stonework, and with a conical cap, and there is a rectangular one of brick, slate hung, on the east gable end. At the se are 4 steps to a small upper garden, and before the house is a rough stone plinth like a bench. By the side of the back doorway is a small elliptical granite trough under a pump. Also at the back is an upper door- way with a stone slab before it as a bridge from the upper ground at the rear. East is a small upper window. Still called the church house. May have been an almshouse, endowed by t. Tremayne in 1517.(copeland). According to the records of the charity commissioners of 1818 the house was part of the parish lands trust (pearson).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV141296.

Copeland, g. W. /tda/95(1963)147-148 pl.9/devonshire church-houses, part 4.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV141297.

Osa=sx75nw10.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV141298.

Pearson, j. B. /tda/32(1900)210/church houses in devon.

Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

Historic England, 2015, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV358087.

Church House. Probably a church house, now a private house. Probably early C17, possibly with C16 origins. Rendered stone rubble. Asbestos slate roof with gabled ends. Rendered stacks at gable ends, the left hand end has a large stack with a tapered top to the shaft with slate weathering. Plan: original plan is uncertain. It is now a 2-room plan with a central entrance into a cross-passage. The left hand room has a large gable end fireplace; the right hand room has a smaller and probably later stock. There is a first floor doorway at the back of the left hand end which may have been the original access to the first floor if it were originally a church house. The present straight staircase is probably C19 and rises from the right hand room across the back of the passage. A partition has been inserted into the right hand room to create a kitchen at the back. In the C20 an outshut was added at the centre of the back with a porch in the right hand angle. The outbuilding attached to the left hand end of the front is probably early C19. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window range. C20 2-light metal frame casements; ground floor right a C20 French window. Central doorway with a late C19 or early C20 glazed door and a stone rubble porch with a lean-to asbestos slate roof and side doorway. A circa early C19 outbuilding on the left hand end of the front built of slate rubble with a slate half-hipped roof, single storey, door at the front; a later lean-to in the angle behind on the left hand gable end. A C20 outshut at the rear with a lean-to porch in the left hand angle. To the right of the outshut a partly blocked first floor doorway. Interior: There are at least 4 chamfered cross-beams, all without exposed stops. One beam set into the left hand end wall above a large fireplace, its chamfered lintel appears to have been raised. The ground and first floor partitions are later. Late C20 plasterwork in early C17 style by Mr Lightbound of Totnes includes a single rib ceiling in the ground floor left hand room, a cornice on the first floor landing and a frieze in the first floor left hand room. Roof: 2 of the principals at the right end have notched lap jointed collars, mortices for threaded purlins and ridge piece and a mortice and tenoned apex. One of the principals at the left end has a curved foot, the rest are set in the wall tops and have mortices for threaded purlins; and one principal at the centre has a mortice for a missing collar but the opposite principal is not morticed indicating that there has been rearrangement of the roof structure. The rafters, ridge piece and most of the purlins have been replaced.

Sources / Further Reading

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