The Old School Room is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Village hall. 1 related planning application.
The Old School Room
- WRENN ID
- riven-merlon-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Village hall
- Address
- The Old School Room, Swimbridge, EX32 0PR
- OS grid reference
- SS 621 299
- Coordinates
- 51.05256, -3.96847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School Room is a former school and possibly church-house, now serving as a village hall. It likely dates from the 17th century, although there may be earlier materials hidden within the structure. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and features a slate roof with gable ends. There is a stack at the right end and a small truncated lateral stack at the front. The plan is rectangular, consisting of a large single room on each of its two floors.
The building has two storeys and external stone steps leading to a loft plank door at the left gable end, which is covered by a slate canopy. The east side has a range of three 20th-century two-light casement windows. The west side also has three two-light casements, one on each floor, with small leaded panes in the upper storey windows.
Inside, the ground floor room features two ceiling beams supported by slender engaged timber columns on each side. Although there is no access to the roof space, the feet of three straight principal rafters and heavy purlins are partially visible. The hall is adjacent to the churchyard.
Local climate
The Old School Room sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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