St Helens Chapel Cottage and Remains of St Helens Chapel to East is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1965. Chapel, cottage.
St Helens Chapel Cottage and Remains of St Helens Chapel to East
- WRENN ID
- crooked-baluster-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1965
- Type
- Chapel, cottage
- Address
- St Helens Chapel Cottage and Remains of St Helens Chapel to East, Hobbs Hill, Georgeham
- OS grid reference
- SS 443 389
- Coordinates
- 51.12902, -4.22566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Helens Chapel Cottage and the remains of St Helens Chapel are located in Croyde, forming a single dwelling with historical significance. The medieval chapel has been restored in the 20th century, while the cottage, built in 1906, is situated at the west end of the chapel. The chapel is constructed of rubble stone, and the cottage is made of rubble stone and cob, which is whitewashed and rendered, featuring stacks at each end beneath a tiled roof. The chapel has a plain tiled roof with a gable end facing the inhabited portion, and it is 1½ storeys high. The 2-storey cottage has a three-window south front with 20th-century two-light casements, a 20th-century gabled porch, and two short buttresses on the right end of the front.
On the north side of the chapel, there is a pointed arch window with dressed stone jambs and voussoirs, each voussoir inscribed with the letter forming the word "ICHABOD." An early scratch sundial is located above a three-light window on the south side. Inside the chapel, there are three closely spaced raised crucks with two tiers of threaded purlins, morticed collars, and yokes, featuring angled chamfers on the soffits of each blade. The exposed cruck truss at the gable end has a false collar made from the lower sections of a similar pair of cruck blades, sawn off and set horizontally in the wall to meet at the center. The east gable end has 20th-century joinery. The ruins of the chapel extend to the east, with part of it rebuilt at the upper end, featuring a crenellated parapet. The entrance on the north side has a false four-centred arch, and there are slit windows on each side wall with deep chamfers on the inner faces. The chapel is believed to have origins dating back to the 12th century.
Local climate
St Helens Chapel Cottage and Remains of St Helens Chapel to East 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 95% 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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