The Old Chancel is a Grade I listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. A 1864 (Victorian rebuilding and additions) House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Chancel
- WRENN ID
- tilted-tracery-lichen
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Period
- 1864 (Victorian rebuilding and additions)
- Address
- The Old Chancel, Coburg Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8NH
- OS grid reference
- SY 124 874
- Coordinates
- 50.68039, -3.24031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Chancel was built in 1864 and later by Peter Orlando Hutchinson, a local antiquary and historian. Appalled by the severity of a church restoration which left only the tower standing, Hutchinson rescued and re-erected the chancel, along with its 18th-century east window, in his garden at No. 4 Coburg Terrace, Coburg Road. He subsequently added the rest of the house for his own use.
The building is constructed of old stone in a picturesque, but slightly heavy, Gothic style. It incorporates original Medieval fabric from the parish church. The narrow entrance front features corner buttresses and a three-centred arched doorway with a drip mould. Above the doorway is a corbelled rectangular stone bay with a two-light mullioned casement window having a cusped head. The north front has two- or three-light mullioned casement windows. The roofline is irregular, with gables and a parapet, and the east end has a pyramidal slate roof. On the south front is a stone tablet bearing a monogram and the date 1864.
Local climate
The Old Chancel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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