Pilton Church Hall

Pilton Church Hall, originally a house and later an inn, dates probably to the late 16th century, with significant alterations in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and a hall extension added to the rear in the early 20th century. The front wall is notably thick and roughcast, while the right side is of painted brick. The building has tiled roofs, and a ridge tile with an animal crest is present, potentially a reused original and a rare example of a feature previously common in Devon towns. Two brick chimneys are located on the rear wall.

The building originally comprised two rooms and a through-passage, but the passage walls and the right-end wall have likely been rebuilt. Fireplaces are situated within the rear wall. It is two storeys in height, with the rear hall being single-storeyed and featuring a three-window front.

The centrally left doorway has a late 16th-century door frame featuring a flattened Tudor arch, with sunk spandrels and ogee and hollow mouldings; the lower parts of the jambs have been restored. A 20th-century Tudor-style plank door with moulded ribs is in place. An old, worn doorstep is made of local stone. The left-hand ground-floor window is a double-hung sash with 6 over 6 panes and some original glass, while the window to the right is a 12-paned fixed sash with original glass and a moulded frame. To its right is a canted bay window with 20th-century 6-paned wood casements. A 19th-century fixed 12-paned sash is positioned at the far right-hand end, with the top left-hand pane fitted with two pairs of H-hinges. Upper-storey windows are predominantly 3- and 4-light wood casements with a single horizontal bar within each light. A wall-plate/gutter support is fixed to shaped brackets.

Inside, the passage walls are of brick. The ceiling of the room to the right has plastered beams with enriched cornices along them and on the adjacent walls. A section of thickly painted, decorated plaster frieze is present on the front wall, alongside a 19th/20th-century plank dado and a similar-dated chimneypiece located in the rear wall near the passage. A previous list description noted that matchboarding incorporated linenfold panels, although this was not confirmed during a recent inspection, though a portion of the dado in the bay window was missing.

The upper-storey left-hand room contains a fireplace with a bead-moulded wood surround on the rear wall. Two exposed roof trusses are present, showcasing slightly cambered, morticed-and-tenoned collars, slots for threaded purlins and front principals with slightly curved feet. The right-hand room was not inspected but is reported to contain plasterwork on the first floor.