Church Rooms at West Entrance to Churchyard of Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Church rooms.

Church Rooms at West Entrance to Churchyard of Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
quartered-pavement-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1986
Type
Church rooms
Address
Church Rooms at West Entrance to Churchyard of Church of St Peter, Westleigh
OS grid reference
SS 472 286
Coordinates
51.0367, -4.1804
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The church rooms at the west entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Peter are a building that was formerly used as a National school room and earlier as Church House. It likely has origins from the early 16th century and was remodelled and restored in 1870. The structure is made of stone rubble and features a slate roof with gable ends. There is a stone rubble stack at the south gable end, which has a drip and a tapered cap.

The building is two storeys high, with a large room above the entrance gates and a room on each side. Each side has a single dormer with a hipped roof and 19th-century three-light transomed mullion windows. The entrance to the covered walkway on the east side has a cambered arch with stone voussoirs, and to the right, there is a two-light casement window with six panes per light. On the west side, there is a 19th-century three-light window to the right of the cambered arched entrance. Access to the first floor is via a doorway with a plank door at the north gable end.

The walkway features a two-panelled door on the south side, along with a timber lintel above a former opening to the left and a four-panelled door on the south side. The exposed joists over the covered walkway have hollow-flanking-ogee moulded soffits with run-out stops. A plaque in the room above notes that "This School House was restored by Frances Torr. 1870."

Local climate

Church Rooms at West Entrance to Churchyard of Church of St Peter 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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