Compass Cottage / Wesleyan Chapel
- Date:
- 21 Jun 2005
- Location:
- Compass Cottage, Branscombe, East Devon, Devon
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Wesleyan Chapel, Branscombe, East Devon, Devon
- Reference:
- IOE01/13701/29
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SY 18 NE BRANSCOMBE STREET (south side)
7/51 Compass Cottage (former Wesleyan - Chapel) GV II
House converted from disused Wesleyan chapel. Dated 1831, converted to a house in early C20. Local Salcombe stone rubble with ashlar dressings; stone rubble or brick stacks with brick stacks with brick chimneyshaft; slate roof.
Plan: former chapel on a north-south axis with its main entrance in the north end facing towards the road. It has now been converted to a 4-room plan house, 2 wide and 2 deep, with a central axial stack. 2 storeys.
Exterior: the north end contains a large central doorway with relieving arch above which contains a C20 panelled door. An inserted window to right and one in an original opening above contain C20 casements with glazing bars. A plaque in the gable is inscribed Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, 1831. The roof is gable-ended with ashlar coping with a ball apex finials. Both sides have 2-window fronts of C20 casements. The east side fenestration is more regular and, near the rear end, is a doorway containing an early C20 4-panel door with a porch supported on turned balusters.
Interior not inspected.
This former chapel forms part of a group of mostly thatched-roof buildings which make up the hamlet of Street.
Listing NGR: SY1886288812
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1395 IOE Records taken by Duncan Miller; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Duncan Miller. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Miller, Duncan
Rights Holder: Miller, Duncan
Ashlar, Brick, Rubble, Slate, Stone, Georgian Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Victorian Religious Ritual And Funerary, Methodist Chapel, Nonconformist Chapel, Chapel, Place Of Worship, House, Monument (By Form), Domestic, Dwelling
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