The Town Hall

The Town Hall is a town hall built in 1846, with alterations made in 1894. It features a rendered front gable end, while the rest is made of unrendered stone rubble with brick dressings. The building has a slate roof with a bracketed front gable end and a long, narrow rectangular plan, oriented gable end to the street. Originally, the front and right side were open at ground floor level, but these arched openings were infilled in the late 19th century. There is a central staircase accessed from the middle bay on the right side.

The Town Hall stands two storeys tall. The front gable end has two bays, with rusticated quoins and a ground floor below a plat-band. The ground floor features semi-circular arched windows with vermiculated keystones, while the upper storey has cambered arched windows with rendered stone reveals and aprons. A blind oculus in the gable displays the date 1894. The right side has seven bays of infilled semi-circular brick arched openings at ground level, each with weathered keystones, and a semi-circular headed door with two panelled leaves in the central bay. The upper storey openings mirror those on the front gable end, with cambered arches and primarily 16 paned hornless sashes. The second bay from the right is blocked, and the second bay from the left has a larger opening with a 24 paned sash.

In around 1900, the arcades were enclosed, and The Town Hall was converted into a basket-making workshop to provide employment for the poor of the town, initiated by the vicar of Chulmleigh, Rev. Marsden Gibson.