Former sexton's house, 52m north-west of the Church of St Michael and All Angels
Former Sexton's house, Church of St Michael and All Angels, Waterleat Avenue, Honiton, EX14 9TE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1492617
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-2025
- List Entry Name:
- Former sexton's house, 52m north-west of the Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- Former Sexton's house, Church of St Michael and All Angels, Waterleat Avenue, Honiton, EX14 9TE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1492617
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-2025
- List Entry Name:
- Former sexton's house, 52m north-west of the Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Sexton's house, Church of St Michael and All Angels, Waterleat Avenue, Honiton, EX14 9TE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Former Sexton's house, Church of St Michael and All Angels, Waterleat Avenue, Honiton, EX14 9TE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Honiton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY1667299979
Summary
House, built before 1842. Some later alteration.
Reasons for Designation
The former sexton’s house, constructed before 1842 in the churchyard of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as a neatly-made, compact building in the Gothic style, with some good exterior detailing;
* it is a prominent and architecturally-distinctive component of the churchyard.
Group value:
* it benefits from historic and spatial group value with the Grade II* listed Church of St Michael and All Angels with which it was functionally-related and the nearby lych gate.
History
To the north-west of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, close to the north entrance to the churchyard, is a small detached building that was provided as housing for the sexton, and included a single-storey store accessed externally. It is depicted on the tithe map of 1842, and is named as Old Church Cottage on the first edition Ordnance Survey map published in 1888 (surveyed 1887-1888). A photograph taken probably in the early or mid-C20 shows that the house originally had a large central chimney stack and a single-storey lean-to on the north side. Both features have since been removed. A window has been added in the rear elevation.
Details
House, built before 1842. Some later alteration.
MATERIAL
It is constructed of random limestone rubble with limestone dressings and a slate roof. The central ridge stack has been removed.
PLAN
The building is rectangular on plan with a lean-to against the south gable wall.
EXTERIOR
The building has one and a half storeys and three bays, with high gables and sash windows in stone surrounds. The symmetrical entrance front faces onto the churchyard. It has a central plank door within a two-centred arched surround and is flanked by paired timber sash windows in square-headed surrounds with slender mullions. Each gable end has a two-light window to the upper floor and some cusped detailing to the apex of the bargeboards. The rear elevation has two windows; the large window is a later addition, and a central doorway containing a half-glazed door. The single-storey lean-to attached to the south gable wall is built of stone rubble under a monopitch slate roof.
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon (1989), 494
Other
Tithe Map of the Parish of Honiton, Devon. 1842
Honiton Church. Re-dedication of St Michael’s by the Bishop. The Western Times, Friday September 6, 1912
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 14-Dec-2025 at 09:16:26.
Download a full scale map (PDF)© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2025. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2025. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
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