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

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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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