Old Church Hall and School (St Andrews Church) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. Church hall and school.
Old Church Hall and School (St Andrews Church)
- WRENN ID
- former-facade-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- Church hall and school
- Address
- Old Church Hall and School (St Andrews Church), Rotten Row, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 082 276
- Coordinates
- 51.04128, -3.31011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Church Hall and School, also known as St Andrews Church, is a disused building dating from around 1841, incorporating elements from the 17th century. It features red sandstone random rubble masonry, with the elevations facing the churchyard rendered, and has Welsh slate roofs. The structure is L-shaped and consists of a two-storey block with a basement beneath the cross-wing, which serves as the church hall. This part has a more steeply pitched roof than the school section, with a coped gable and a two-storey canted bay that includes mullioned and transomed windows made of Ham stone, likely reused from the 16th century.
The entrance is located at the right return angle and features a Tudor-style doorway with a square-headed drip mould and stops. Above the doorway is a diamond-shaped panel displaying a bishop's mitre and a rose, which has been taken from the Bishops Palace. On the first floor, there is a pair of four-light mullion and transom windows, both of which are blocked in the lower half. The school section has wooden casements on both the front and rear elevations, with leaded casements on the two end bays facing the churchyard. There are tongue and groove, squared-headed doorways leading onto Rotten Row. Inside the school, there is a re-used 16th-century moulded wooden ceiling.
Local climate
Old Church Hall and School (St Andrews Church) receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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