Vestry on Perimeter of St Peters Churchyard, About 14 Metres West of Church is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1955. Vestry.
Vestry on Perimeter of St Peters Churchyard, About 14 Metres West of Church
- WRENN ID
- sunken-entrance-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1955
- Type
- Vestry
- OS grid reference
- SX 720 731
- Coordinates
- 50.54391, -3.80764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The vestry and storeroom located on the perimeter of St Peter's churchyard, about 14 metres west of the church, dates from the 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of granite rubble with large, roughly-squared granite quoins and features a thatched roof that is three-quarter hipped at each end. A short, thick granite chimneystack sits on the ridge, offset to the right. The building has a two-room plan, with each room having its own front door and no inter-connecting doorway, and is a single storey in height.
The front wall does not have any windows and instead has two old plank doors set in beaded wood frames. The left-hand door retains its wooden latch but has been repaired with horizontal boarding at the bottom, while the right-hand door features wrought-iron strap-hinges and an old wooden handle. The rear wall includes a three-light wood casement window on the left, which has eight panes per light, and a small blocked window on the right.
Inside, the vestry on the left has an early 19th-century chimneypiece with a simple wood surround and a bracketed mantelshelf. This room was once used for a Sunday School. The right-hand room, which is unplastered and unceiled, appears to have always been a storeroom. The roof structure of the entire building has clean trusses, with principal rafters that have plain feet and collars pegged to their faces, and there are no common rafters, only thatching spars.
Local climate
Vestry on Perimeter of St Peters Churchyard, About 14 Metres West of Church receives an average of 880 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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