Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1983. Church, offices. 1 related planning application.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- standing-chapel-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1983
- Type
- Church, offices
- Address
- Church House, Queen Street, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2QP
- OS grid reference
- SX 862 713
- Coordinates
- 50.53058, -3.60641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a former church, now used as offices, built in 1875 and converted into offices in 1976. It is constructed of squared Devon limestone and features a slate roof, showcasing the Gothic Revival Decorated style. The building has a rectangular plan with a prominent entrance tower at the front, flanked by lower and narrower wings.
The west tower is designed in three stages, featuring decorative quatrefoil oxidized copper bands and quoins leading up to an octagonal slate spire. It has a pierced parapet with diagonally-set finials at the corners and sides, and machicolation above three-light louvred pointed-arched belfry openings, which are complemented by loopholes below. Gabled clasping buttresses frame the three-light traceried windows, and a gabled pointed-arched doorcase includes a quatrefoil in the tympanum. The flanking wings contain two-light windows, weathered corner buttresses, and porches with pointed arches, above which are two-light cusped-headed windows. The returns of the building have five bays with similar two-light windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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