Mile End Chapel Studio and Attached Wall and Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Mile End Chapel Studio and Attached Wall and Piers
- WRENN ID
- long-turret-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Mile End Chapel Studio and Attached Wall and Piers, Old Commercial Road, City of Portsmouth, PO1 4QL
- OS grid reference
- SU 644 012
- Coordinates
- 50.8068, -1.08731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a chapel, later used as a college annexe and now a studio, dating from circa 1885. Foundation stones indicate construction began on 8th October 1884. It is built of red brick in English bond, with stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof.
The main structure is two storeys high with one wide bay. Projecting single-storey bays are located on the left and right returns, featuring four stone steps leading to diagonal boarded doors set under stone lintels. These are flanked by a stone-coped brick wall and end piers. The front facade has a tripartite stone mullioned window with paired lights, stone sills, and a brick pointed arch with a pointed dripstone tympanum featuring carved stone foliage. The projecting bays have stone corner pinnacles and a stone crenellated parapet. The first floor has three-light casements set in a stone surround with two brick mullions, stone cusped heads all recessed within a three-centred brick arch with a panelled carved stone tympanum, trefoil head, and keystones. A bellcote is situated at the apex of a sloping stone parapet. The flanking bays, formerly aisles, each contain two-light casements set under a pointed brick arch with a stone springer, sill, and dripstone. A low buttress highlights the outer quoins, and a sloping stone parapet completes the exterior.
The interior of the building was not inspected for listing purposes.
Attached to the main building are a stone-coped brick boundary wall and entrance piers.
Local climate
Mile End Chapel Studio and Attached Wall and Piers receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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