Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. A C17 Church hall.

Church Hall

WRENN ID
winding-parapet-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 November 1985
Type
Church hall
Address
Church Hall, Brentor, West Devon
OS grid reference
SX 482 814
Coordinates
50.61265, -4.14606
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church Hall, originally a national school, was built in 1832 and later extended to the rear around the late 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with stone dressings and features an asbestos slate roof that is hipped at the ends. A reused 17th-century chimney cap is present on the chimney of the rear addition. This rectangular, single-storey building exhibits modest Tudor style details.

The front facade is symmetrical with three bays and includes a large central gabled porch that has a stone plaque inscribed with "Parochial school erected by the National School Society and W. Rundel esq., of Bellgrove, 1832." The building has deep eaves and a moulded Tudor arched doorway with a two-leaf arched door fitted with strap hinges. Flanking the doorway are two Tudor arched windows, each with two lights and four panes per light, set in chamfered stone architraves. The north end features a three-light gabled Tudor arched window with intersecting glazing bars in the head, while a similar window on the south end has been converted into a door.

Inside, the hall consists of an undivided five-bay schoolroom with contemporary scissor brace roof trusses and a simple plank dado. The Brentor school closed in 1955, as noted by Roger R. Sellman in "Devon Village Schools" published in 1967.

Local climate

Church Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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