Chapel Cottage and School Room Adjoining to West End is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1988. A C19 Cottage, school room.

Chapel Cottage and School Room Adjoining to West End

WRENN ID
over-hinge-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1988
Type
Cottage, school room
OS grid reference
SS 636 254
Coordinates
51.01251, -3.94576
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chapel Cottage and the adjoining school room, located on the south side of High Street in Chittlehampton, date from the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from rendered stone rubble and features an asbestos slate roof with gable ends. There is a rear lateral stack with a brick shaft serving the cottage.

The layout consists of the cottage on the left, which has a single room plan, a staircase in the left-hand rear corner, and an entrance passage to the right. The school room extends to the right under a continuous roof. The cottage is two storeys high, while the school room is single storey.

The cottage has a two-window range featuring late 19th century or early 20th century two-light casements with six panes per light, above a three-light casement with six panes per light to the left of a plank door that has two glazed upper panels. The school room to the right has two plank doors, each accompanied by a large window with three over six panes to its right. The left end of the cottage is accentuated by quoins. The interior has been altered in the 20th century.

Local climate

Chapel Cottage and School Room Adjoining to West End receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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