Description

BUCKLAND-IN-THE-MOOR BUCKLAND-IN-THE-MOOR
SX 77 SW
6/55 Vestry on perimeter of St Peter's
churchyard, about 14 metres west
23.8.55 of church (formerly listed as
Sunday School)
GV II

Vestry and storeroom. C18 or early C19. Granite rubble with large, roughly-squared
granite quoins. Thatched roof, three-quarter hipped at each end. Short, thick
granite chimneystack on ridge, off-centre to right. 2-room plan, each room with its
own front door and no inter-connecting doorway. 1 storey. The front wall has no
windows, just 2 old plank doors in old beaded wood frames. The left hand door
retains its wooden latch, but has been repaired with horizontal boarding at the
bottom. The right hand door has wrought-iron strap-hinges and an old wooden handle.
Rear wall has 3-light wood casement window to left, this having 8 panes per light;
small blocked window to right.
Interior: vestry, to left, has early C19 chimneypiece with simple wood surround and
bracketed mantelshelf. The room was once used for a Sunday School. Right-hand
room, which is unplastered and unceiled, always seems to have been a store-room.
Roof structure of whole building has clean trusses, the principal rafters with plain
feet and collars pegged to their faces; no common rafters, just thatching spars.

Listing NGR: SX7201773133

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618911

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback