Abbotsham Church of England Primary School and Attached Gateway. is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. School. 1 related planning application.

Abbotsham Church of England Primary School and Attached Gateway.

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1988
Type
School
Address
Abbotsham Church of England Primary School and Attached Gateway., EX39 5AP
OS grid reference
SS 424 264
Coordinates
51.0157, -4.24745
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbotsham Church of England Primary School and the attached gateway were built in 1851 at the expense of W. Cheywood Esq. of Kenwith Castle. The building is made of coursed slatestone rubble and features a gabled slate roof with stone end stacks. The schoolroom is located to the right of the schoolmaster's house, and the architectural style combines elements of Domestic Tudor and Gothic.

The structure is two storeys high with a four-window range. It has a gabled and stone-coped porch that features a pointed chamfered archway and a segmental stone arch over a 20th-century inner door. The porch is flanked by tympanum arches above two mid-19th century ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned and transomed three-light windows. Similar windows are found on the first floor to the left, along with a one-light window in the left-hand bay of the ground floor. To the left, there are two plank doors, and a late 19th-century chamfered wood-mullioned and transomed three-light window has been inserted into a blocked doorway in the lower bay on the right. The rear of the building also features similar ovolo-moulded windows.

Additionally, there is a gateway attached to the right, which leads into the churchyard of the Church of St. Helen. This gateway has a pediment-shaped stone-coped parapet above a segmental-arched doorway. The school and gateway are included for their group value.

Local climate

Abbotsham Church of England Primary School and Attached Gateway. 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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