St Johns Church Hall

PLYMOUTH

SX4952NW CHURCH HILL ROAD 740-1/77/598 (East side) 01/05/75 Plymstock, Hooe (Lower) St John's Church Hall

GV II

Church hall and former vicarage or schoolhouse. 1855 by William White. Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings; very steep dry slate roofs, the hall roof extended late C20 and sweeping very low at the front; truncated rubble stack over original front wall flanked by 2 steep gabled dormers with C20 glazing and further stack over left-hand corner; schoolhouse has 2 gabled dormers breaking the eaves and large rendered rubble end stacks. Overall L-shaped group. 2-storey schoolhouse with 1st floor partly in roof space; single-storey schoolroom with attic converted. Hall has projecting gable on the left with trefoil-headed lancet and 3-light window to right-hand return gable end. Schoolhouse has symmetrical 2-window front with central lean-to porch with arched wooden doorway; late C20 windows in original openings. INTERIOR: not inspected. Included for group value with Church of St John (qv) (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 681).

Listing NGR: SX4950052710