The Old Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. A Early Modern Chapel. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-transept-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- The Old Meeting House, Chapel Lane, Wymondham, NR18 9ER
- OS grid reference
- TG 093 026
- Coordinates
- 52.58117, 1.0879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Meeting House, also known as Chapel Bell, is a former chapel located in Wymondham, dating from 1687. It is constructed with a timber frame and has an early 19th-century brick skin. Adjacent to the west is a whitewashed brick house from the early 19th century. The chapel has a single storey and is divided into three bays, featuring a central 20th-century glazed door set within a timber case and flat hood. There are sash windows on either side of the door, which have glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. The roof is gabled, with a stack on the rear slope and a full-height outshut at the back.
The attached house to the west is two storeys tall, with three 20th-century windows on the ground floor and two early 19th-century three-light casements on the first floor. A central ground-floor window has blocked a former doorway. The house features a dentil eaves cornice beneath the gabled roof and has an internal gable-end stack on the west side.
Inside the chapel, three principal studs on the north side are now free-standing due to the outshut space. The interior also displays one tier of staggered butt purlins, collars, and straight bracing to the corner studs.
Local climate
The Old Meeting House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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