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Summary

Church House. A well-restored two-storey building, largely of granite ashlar, abutting into the south side of the churchyard and now used as a parish hall.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II*) 1106077: CHURCH ROOMS

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX79SW25
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 899359
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX79SW/18/2
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*): 94902

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CHURCH HOUSE (XV to Post Medieval - 1500 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))
• CHURCH HALL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))
• SCHOOL (XVIII to XIX - 1800 AD? (Between) to 1864 AD (Between))

Full description

Copeland, G. W., 1960, Devonshire Church-Houses: Part 1, 125-6, fig. 34 (Article in Serial). SDV298102.

Church House. A well-restored two-storey building, largely of granite ashlar, abutting into the south side of the churchyard and now used as a parish hall. It has thick walls and splayed window embrasures and at the west end is a prominent chimney-breast supporting a stack with a conical cap. The windows are all modern wooden-frame replacements. At the front are two plain doorways reached by short flights of granite steps; the upper chamber is reached from the east by a long flight of lateral granite steps and a later doorway. In the wall of the churchyard side are some curious air-holes. At the north-west is a rectangular projection containing a curved stone staircase with a round-headed doorway at the top and evidence that the stairs once rose to a higher level. The lower room has a good ceiling with massive chamfered beams, one of which rests on a crude granite corbel; and the wall-plate is supported on two chamfered floor-posts. The fireplace is wide and open with a chamfered granite lintel on inner quarter-round end-corbels, also of granite. The floor is cobbled. The lower area is divided by a good plank screen of six bays, the panels in part pierced, and each containing three turned balusters. At the north end of the screen is a chamfered shouldered doorway of oak (like the upper one). The upper chamber has an open roof of timber and plaster, three-sided and of three bays, with unmoulded curved springers to the principals; the purlins and wall-plates are also unmoulded. The roof is tiled in slate.

Department of Environment, 1988, Drewsteignton (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV336831.

Parish hall, former school and originally a church house. Early or mid C16, refurbished circa 1980. See the List for full details. An interesting and well-preserved former church house intruding into the churchyard.

Cherry, B. + Pevsner, N., 1989, The Buildings of England: Devon, 340 (Monograph). SDV325629.

Church Rooms. Parish hall, former school, but originally a church house built in the early or mid C16th. Refurbished ca.1980. Simple two-room plan, the East room being unheated, the West heated by an end stack. It was always two-storeyed. Grade II*.

Ordnance Survey, 2024, Mastermap 2024 (Cartographic). SDV365834.

Building is depicted on the modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

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