Church House Used for Storage, Adjacent to North West Corner of Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Church house.

Church House Used for Storage, Adjacent to North West Corner of Church of St Thomas

WRENN ID
steep-flue-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 April 1987
Type
Church house
OS grid reference
SS 622 438
Coordinates
51.17712, -3.97188
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a church house, now used for storage, located adjacent to the north-west corner of the Church of St Thomas. It dates from the 18th century or early 19th century and is constructed of unrendered stone rubble with a hipped slate roof. There is a projecting stone rubble rear lateral stack with a brick shaft. The building is rectangular in plan and features a small single room on each floor, built into a bank with access to the front first floor. It has two storeys, with plank doors leading to the upper storey front entrance and to the ground floor room at the left end. The right-hand front corner is slightly recessed around the north-west corner of the church's north aisle.

Local climate

Church House Used for Storage, Adjacent to North West Corner of Church of St Thomas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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