Speke Hall, About 10 Metres North West Of Church Of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Villages hall.
Speke Hall, About 10 Metres North West Of Church Of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- riven-sill-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Villages hall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DOWLISH WAKE CP ST31SE DOWLISH WAKE VILLAGE 2/41 Speke Hall, about 10 metres north west of Church of St Andrew - GV II
Former day and Sunday school, closed 1949; now village hall. 1840, erected by William Speke. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof to shallow pitch between stepped coped gables with cross-plan finials. single-storey, 6 bays. Pointed- . arched 'Y'-tracery windows of 2 lights with labels, bays 2, 3, 5 and 6; former doorway to bay. 1 now blocker: projecting from bay 4 a later gabled porch with plain chamfered pointed arched doorway and boarded door, with traces of a 4-centre arched label to inner door visible above roof; over former bay 1 doorway a plain stone inscribed 'Erected by William Speke Esq 1840', Single later windows in end gables, C20 extension to rear, Simple interior with coved ceiling exposing collars of roof trusses. Building has important group value with Church of St Andrew (qv). (VCH Somerset, Vol IV. 1978, p156).
Listing NGR: ST3754512957
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