CHURCH HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1097737
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1097737
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Haccombe with Combe
National Grid Reference:: SX9019771586

Details

HACCOMBE-WITH-COMBE COMBEINTEIGNHEAD SX 90 71

16/93 Church House (formerly listed as Old Almshouses) 23.8.55

GV II*

Church house. Probably built shortly after 1530, the date of a grant of a piece of land from John Bourghchyre "on which is to be built a house which must be a church house". First floor converted to flats and eaves raised in 1977. Red sandstone, partly large blocks brought to course, partly rubblestone. Slate roof (formerly thatched), gabled at ends ; no existing stack. Plan: Single depth rectangular plan, the ground floor consisting of a large room to the left with an entrance on the front at the left and a narrow service room at the right end with a separate entrance. First floor altered for conversion to flats but was one large room. The building has served several different purposes from poorhouse to bakehouse and schoolroom. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front with a stone eaves cornice (slightly below the eaves since the raising of the roof) and a second cornice or dripmould at sill level of the first floor windows. The doorway into the main ground floor room at the left is set high in the wall and presumably had steps up. Fine moulded oak doorframe with carved spandrels and a plank and stud door with large strap hinges. The door to the service room has steps up and a chamfered doorframe with a slightly cambered lintel. To the left of this a fine 4-light window with a moulded frame and mullions and hollow-chamfered segmental-headed lights with carved spandrels, iron stanchions and saddle bars, the window is unglazed with modern glazing on the inner face of the wall. A smaller, plainer, mullioned window to the left, also unglazed, has 2 lights with chamfered frames and peaked heads. 2 C20 3- light windows with arched lights to the first floor, similar windows to each end wall. Interior: Ground floor only inspected. Massive chamfered cross beams with additional support at the junction with the walls ; plank and muntin screen dividing main room from service room, the muntins roll-moulded towards the main room. A probably C19 plaque, temporarily removed, states 'this building was erected and presented to the Parish as an Almshouse, by William Bourchier 3rd Earl of Bath, A.D. 1620'. Copeland refers to "a modern elliptical-headed wooden doorway as the entrance to the upper chamber" in the right (south) end wall and a renewed "timber and plaster" roof. Brick chimney stacks, which no longer exist, were described as 'restorations'; the first floor fireplace in the east (rear), wall of the first floor was described as "quite modern" and the ground floor left end fireplace as "relatively small and plain segmental-headed". The lower floor is said to have been used as a brewery, the upper floor for meetings. From about 1810 until 1856 it was used as an almshouse. The brewing equipment was sold off at about this time and the lower floor was let as 2 dwellings. The upper floor was used as a schoolroom between 1789 and 1932. An important example of a church house with high quality C16 carpentry intact.

Thorne, J.O. The Church House, Combeinteignhead, Historical Notes (n.d.).

Thorne, J.O. New Light on Combe Church House, Combeinteignhead Parish Magazine. Copeland, G.W. 'Devonshire Church Houses : T.D.A, vol. XCV (1963), pp. 142-143.

Listing NGR: SX9019771586

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Legacy System number:: 85757
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Thorne, Jo, The Church House Combeinteignhead
'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, , Vol. 150, (1963), 142-43
Thorne, J, 'Combeinteignhead Parish Magazine' in New Light on Combe Church House, ()

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.