Kentisbury Village Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Village hall. 1 related planning application.
Kentisbury Village Hall
- WRENN ID
- grim-merlon-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Village hall
- Address
- Kentisbury Village Hall, Bayclose Lane, EX31 4NF
- OS grid reference
- SS 620 435
- Coordinates
- 51.17412, -3.97525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kentisbury Village Hall is a village hall that was formerly a school, built around 1870. It is constructed of unrendered stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with crested ridge tiles. The building consists of a single room main range that is gable-ended at the front, with a smaller gable-ended lobby projecting at right angles from the left side, creating a T-shaped plan. There is a lean-to porch at the hall side entrance in the front angle, and the structure is single storey.
All the windows have pointed arched lights, with stepped three-light stone mullion windows located at the gable ends of both the main range and the lobby projection. The windows in the main range are set within pointed arched surrounds. On the right-hand side of the main range, there are two large transomed windows with hipped dormer roofs, each containing three lights. A buttress between these windows features a moulded ashlar sill band that extends to each side. The upper part of the lean-to porch has open timber framing, supported by short chamfered timber posts and shaped raking struts that form an entrance archway.
Inside, the main range has an arch-braced timber roof that springs from moulded stone corbels.
Local climate
Kentisbury Village Hall 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 — 1 application
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