Parish Hall Including Boundary Wall And Gates Enclosing Front Lawn

The Parish Hall, originally known as the Parish Rooms, was built between 1894 and 1895 by W.C. Oliver of Barnstaple. The building is constructed of squared stone rubble with limestone dressings, featuring quoins and relieving arches made from a purplish local stone. It has a slated roof adorned with red ridge-tiles that are pierced with a trefoil pattern, and a stone chimney with a crenellated top on the left gable.

This two-storey hall has a six-bay front designed in the Gothic style. The main hall is located on the first floor and is accessed by long flights of stone steps that lead to doorways in the right-hand bay and the second bay from the left. The ground floor features trefoil-headed windows with plain, chamfered surrounds, while the upper storey showcases more elaborate traceried windows with pointed arches. The paired windows between the two doorways have a central column with a shaft made of red sandstone and patterned glazing. The doorways are designed with two-centred pointed arches and are set in slight projections topped with battlements. The steps leading up to the hall have side walls made of stone with chamfered copings. Both gable walls, visible from Church Lane and Paternoster Row, also have traceried windows. A low, flat-roofed projection with battlements and pointed-arched windows is attached to the left gable.

Inside, the hall on the upper floor features arch-braced roof trusses and a carved cornice, while the rest of the interior is described as plain.

The front lawn of the hall is enclosed by a stone rubble boundary wall with chamfered coping on the north and west sides. The main entrance from Paternoster Row includes rectangular ashlar gate piers with chamfered corners, upon which stand iron lamp-posts with twisted and fluted shafts, though the original lamps are missing. There is a pair of openwork iron gates decorated with scrolls and four-leaved flowers, and a smaller openwork iron gate at the corner of Church Lane, which features quatrefoils and spearheads.