The Old Church House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Private dwelling.
The Old Church House
- WRENN ID
- crooked-threshold-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- Private dwelling
- Address
- The Old Church House, Brayford
- OS grid reference
- SS 689 343
- Coordinates
- 51.09317, -3.87215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Church House is a former church house that has been converted into a private dwelling. It likely dates from the 16th century but may incorporate some earlier materials. The building underwent changes in the 20th century, including new windows, a new roof, and alterations to the interior. It features colourwashed rendered rubble with a scantling slate roof at the front and asbestos slates at the rear. There are rubble stacks with slate drips at each gable end. The original layout was probably a three-cell cross-passage plan. The house is two stories tall and has a four-window range of 20th-century two-light casements. On the ground floor, there are two two-light casements flanking two doorways; the left doorway has a chamfered surround and a false four-centred headed door with herringbone planking, while the right doorway has a 20th-century door. Inside, there are stone jambs to the fireplace with a timber lintel and roughly chamfered beams. The roof has not been inspected. The Old Church House is located within the walls of the churchyard.
Local climate
The Old Church House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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