British Legion Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Hall. 1 related planning application.
British Legion Hall
- WRENN ID
- dusted-span-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Hall
- Address
- British Legion Hall, Newcourt Road, Silverton, EX5 4HX
- OS grid reference
- SS 955 028
- Coordinates
- 50.81579, -3.48434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The British Legion Hall, located on Newcourt Road in Silverton, is a building that dates back to 1734 and was originally a charity school. It has undergone significant alterations and expansions over the years. The structure is made of random rubble volcanic trap and features a combination of hipped, half-hipped, and gabled end roofs.
The front of the building, facing Newcourt Road, consists of two single-storey schoolroom blocks. The left block has two 2-light casement windows on the first floor and a blocked door below. Between this block and the gable end of the adjacent block, there is now a brick chimney. The gable end of the older block features a 4-light window with a transom, positioned beneath a plaque that commemorates the founding of the charity school by John Richards.
On the Exeter Road side, there are two 4-light windows with transoms and one 2-light window beneath a damaged hood mould. The 4-light windows are set in very shallow recesses. The building also has an axial bellcote, although it is currently without a bell. There are later additions to the rear of the hall. The British Legion Hall holds group value as it occupies an important central position in the village.
Local climate
British Legion Hall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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