The Old Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. Former school. 1 related planning application.
The Old Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- over-spire-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- The Old Sunday School, Buckerell, EX14 3EJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 123 003
- Coordinates
- 50.79581, -3.2448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Sunday School is a former Sunday school built around the late 1830s, likely constructed by the Reverend E.E. Coleridge, who was a nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The building is whitewashed and rendered, probably made of stone, and features a slate roof that is gabled at both ends. It is located adjacent to the stable block at the rear of the Old Rectory and consists of a single room with a porch on the north-east side.
The exterior is single-storey, with a gabled porch that has splat bargeboards. On the right side of the porch, there is an arched doorframe with a two-centred arched door, and the front of the porch features a 2-light traceried arched window with a hoodmould, which is likely medieval and may have been relocated from the church when the vestry was added. The rear wall includes a two-centred arched 19th-century door with ornamental strap hinges. The right side of the building has two arched ground floor windows with metal frames and diamond glazing bars, as well as two first-floor lancets with chamfered stone frames and a hoodmould; the stonework may be medieval.
Inside, the building has a barrel ceiling with moulded ribs. The Old Sunday School is an unusual example of an intact antiquarian Gothick Sunday school and holds group value with the church and the Old Rectory.
Local climate
The Old Sunday School receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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