St Andrews Abbey Hall and Church House Assembly Room is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Church hall. 3 related planning applications.

St Andrews Abbey Hall and Church House Assembly Room

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 November 1998
Type
Church hall
Address
St Andrews Abbey Hall and Church House Assembly Room, Catherine Street, City of Plymouth, PL1 2AD
OS grid reference
SX 478 543
Coordinates
50.36944, -4.14016
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Andrew's Abbey Hall and Church House Assembly Room is a church hall and assembly space built in 1895, as noted on the rainwater head. It is constructed from Plymouth limestone rubble with freestone dressings, featuring a moulded mid-floor string. The building has a steep dry slate roof with coped gable ends and an embattled parapet at the front, which includes a moulded and carved cornice, while the rear has a plain parapet. Designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style, the hall has a rectangular plan and is two storeys tall with a window arrangement of 1:6.

There are doorways at both the far left and right. The principal left-hand doorway features a moulded four-centred stilted arch with relief lettering that reads "ST ANDREW'S ABBEY HALL," and above it is a tall triple transomed and traceried three-light window. The other doorway has chamfered rubble jambs, a Tudor arch, and a Y-traceried fanlight above. The remaining windows are two-light and transomed with moulded jambs; the five ground-floor windows have Y-traceried heads, while the taller first-floor windows have traceried heads. Inside, there is a suspended ceiling on the first floor. The building holds strong group value with Prysten House, Abbey Place, and the Church of St Andrew on Catherine Street.

Local climate

St Andrews Abbey Hall and Church House Assembly Room sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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