Cobbaton Cross Old School Room is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Former school. 2 related planning applications.
Cobbaton Cross Old School Room
- WRENN ID
- keen-niche-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- Cobbaton Cross Old School Room, Chittlehampton, EX37 9RZ
- OS grid reference
- SS 614 269
- Coordinates
- 51.02504, -3.97706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cobbaton Cross Old School Room is a former school building, unoccupied since April 1985, constructed in 1876. It is made of roughly coursed stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with gable ends. The building has a tall lateral stack on the north side, which has gablets at the base and a chequered stone polygonal shaft topped with a crenellated lip and a tapered cap.
The structure is rectangular in plan and consists of a single storey with a gabled porch at the east gable end, which also has a slate roof. The north facade includes straight-headed transomed windows on either side of the stack, while the south side is blind. Each gable end features segmental arched louvred openings above a 2-light transomed window with segmental arches. The east end has a projecting porch made of stone and timber, also with a slate roof.
On the north side, there are windows with 7 lights, and on the south side, there is a 3-light window with a stone surround, while the 4 outer lights have timber surrounds. The gable end has a 6-light window with carved gable braces. The entrance on the south side has a plank door set within a chamfered door surround, accompanied by a short buttress on the left side. Above the porch, there is a bellcote supported by moulded console brackets, featuring a pointed arched bell opening. Inside, the building has dado matchboarding and two plain A-frame roof trusses with raking struts.
Local climate
Cobbaton Cross Old School Room receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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