Stangways Hall

Stangways Hall is a village school that has been converted into a village hall, dated 1858 on the left-hand gable. The building features walls made of banded Abbotsbury and Portesham stone, with buttresses that have set-offs and aedicules framing the doorways. The roof is a combination of plain slate and fish-scale slate, with two gables of different sizes at the front— the larger one on the left and a gable-end on the right. The stone-coped gables have moulded kneelers and finials.

The hall is a single storey with four irregular bays. On the front left, there is a five-light stone mullion window with four-centred heads, above which is a three-light window and three graduated top lights under stilted segmental-pointed heads, with a label that has been stopped. The windows are fitted with 19th-century metal casements. An openwork quatrefoil is present in the head of the gable. The door has a four-centred head and is made of planks with strap-hinges, framed by stone and four lights in bay two. Bay three features a gabled window similar to bay one, but with a two-centred label above and two carved coats-of-arms with pinnacled heads. Bay four has a door similar to bay two, with three rectangular lights above the doorhead.

To the right, there is an attached wall made of rubble-stone, measuring three metres, with a central doorway that has dressed stone jambs and a depressed-arch head. The gabled head projects above the wall and features a cusped pointed trefoil. There is a finial above, and the plank door with strap-hinges dates from the 19th century. Carved inscriptions in stone frame the left-hand window, reading "Shew Me Thy Ways O Lord" and "Teach Me Thy Paths."