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© Mr Michael Perry
IoE Number:
262161
Location:
SPEKE HALL, ABOUT 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW,
DOWLISH WAKE, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Michael Perry
Date Photographed:
29 May 2003
Date listed:
30 November 1987
Date of last amendment:
30 November 1987
Grade
II
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DOWLISH WAKE CP
ST31SE
DOWLISH WAKE VILLAGE
2/41 Spoke Hall, about 10 metres north
west of Church of St Andrew
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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).