Church Rooms
CHURCH ROOMS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1106077
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH ROOMS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1106077
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH ROOMS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH ROOMS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drewsteignton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 73632 90819
Details
SX 79 SW DREWSTEIGNTON DREWSTEIGNTON
5/108 Church Rooms 22.2.67
GV II*
Parish hall, former school and originally a church house. Early or mid C16, refurbished circa 1980. Coursed blocks of masssive granite ashlar with a chamfered plinth; granite ashlar stack and chimney shaft; slate roof (formerly thatch). Plan: the building faces south and is built across and terraced into the hillslope. There are 2 ground floor rooms; a small unheated room at the right (east) end and a left room heated by a large projecting end stack. There is a stone newel stair to rear of the fireplace. Single first floor room is unheated and because of the slope can be entered directly from the there and the right end. It appears to be a single phase building, always 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 3-window front of circa 1980 timber-mullioned casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The 2 doorways, one to each ground floor room, contain part-glazed studded plank doors. All the apertures have slate hoods. Another similar door to the right end at first floor level and similar rear fenestration. The circa 1980 joinery was designed to complement the ancient character of the building. The roof is gable-ended. Good interior: is well preserved. The ground floor rooms are separated by an oak plank-and-muntin screen. The headbeam has a moulded cornice and the muntins are chamfered with step stops. It contains a shoulder-headed doorframe. The tops of the planks have been knocked out to create a row of internal windows. The 3-bay ceiling of the main room is carried on 2 massive soffit-chamfered and step-stopped crossbeams and the plain joists are exposed. The fireplace is massive and built of granite ashlar with a plain chamfered surround. At the head of the stairs is an oak round-headed doorframe. The first floor room is open to the 3-bay roof which is carried by side-pegged jointed cruck trusses with cambered collars. Roofspace was not available for inspection at the time of this survey. This is an interesting and well-preserved former church house intruding into the churchyard.
Listing NGR: SX7363290819
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94902
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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