The Community Centre is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Community centre. 5 related planning applications.
The Community Centre
- WRENN ID
- small-entrance-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Community centre
- Address
- The Community Centre, Church Street, Combe Martin, EX34 0LQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 587 463
- Coordinates
- 51.19849, -4.0235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Community Centre is a single-storey building constructed from rubble stone with ashlar dressings, topped with an asbestos slate roof featuring crested ridge tiles. It has an asymmetrical layout consisting of two parallel gable-end ranges connected by an entrance block, creating a U-shaped plan. An additional gable end range projects forward from the right-hand side of the building, with each range containing a large room.
The principal elevation faces west and features large tripartite, transomed, mullion windows with three lights and single sidelights at the gable ends of the outer ranges. The right-hand range also has a bell on its gable end. The inner range's gable end includes a three-light transomed mullion window set within a two-centred arch surround, complete with an ashlar impost band. The connecting range has an entrance doorway to the left of a five-light transomed mullioned window, both of which have pointed arch heads and are beneath a hipped roof. On the north elevation of the left-hand range, there is a tall three-light double transomed window and a two-light mullion window, both inserted in the 19th century. Additionally, there are several infilled doorways and window openings in the left-hand range, along with evidence of a former attached building's roof line, indicating the building's previous uses.
While there was no internal inspection in 2011, it is understood that the main ranges feature arch-braced roofs.
Local climate
The Community Centre sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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