Downicarey Methodist Church and Schoolroom Adjoining at South East is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1986. Methodist church, schoolroom. 2 related planning applications.
Downicarey Methodist Church and Schoolroom Adjoining at South East
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-cornice-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1986
- Type
- Methodist church, schoolroom
- Address
- Downicarey Methodist Church and Schoolroom Adjoining at South East, PL15 9RU
- OS grid reference
- SX 370 901
- Coordinates
- 50.68812, -4.30823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Downicarey Methodist Church and adjoining schoolroom date from the early 19th century. The church is built of stone rubble with a slate roof, and the schoolroom adjoins it to the south east, featuring a rendered chimney. The church is unusually small, with Gothic style windows.
The church has a two-bay plan. A small gabled porch is on the left, with a doorway on the right side and a blocked pointed window on the front, both with painted architraves. To the right of the porch is a three-light pointed window with glazing bars, also featuring a painted architrave. Two similar windows are found at the rear of the chapel. The schoolroom, with a lower roofline, has a separate entrance on the front, and a single three-light casement window with three panes per light, and a painted architrave.
Inside the church, the early 19th century roof trusses feature tie beams, queen struts with pendants, curved braces springing from a moulded wallplate. A simple rostrum has blind Gothic arcading and arcaded railings. The church also includes rectangular bench ends. A circular central ventilator in the ceiling has a plaster moulding.
Local climate
Downicarey Methodist Church and Schoolroom Adjoining at South 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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