Unitarian Chapel and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1975. Chapel, cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Unitarian Chapel and Cottage

WRENN ID
shadowed-spire-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Waverley
Constituency
Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 May 1975
Type
Chapel, cottage
Address
Unitarian Chapel and Cottage, Meadrow, Godalming, GU7 3JB
OS grid reference
SU 981 446
Coordinates
51.19301, -0.59737
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Unitarian Chapel and caretaker's cottage, built in 1789 and later altered and added to, is located on the east side of Meadrow in Godalming. The building features red-brown brick in English bond, with the chapel's exterior finished in stucco that mimics ashlar stone. It has a plain tile roof. The cottage is two stories tall, while the chapel is a single tall storey. The structure has four bays, with the left-hand bay serving as the caretaker's cottage, separated from the chapel by a straight joint.

The chapel includes a plinth, rendered raised quoins, and a gabled porch positioned between the two left bays. This porch features a plinth and a round-arched door with six flush panels. The chapel also has cyma-reversa moulded kneelers, ashlar coping, and a gable cross. There are three full-height, round-arched windows with glazing bars, and the lower part of the left window serves as a double door with tall, glazed, round-arched top panels. The cottage has rendered coved eaves and a door with six flush panels (the top two being glazed) set in a wood architrave, located under a canopy to the right of a three-light 20th-century window on each floor, with the lower window having a segmental-brick arch.

The entire building has a hipped roof, featuring a cross-ridge stack above the porch and two stacks at the left end. There is a weather-boarded addition at the left end, which is not of special interest. Inside, the two right-hand bays of the chapel serve as the worship area, featuring a bench around the walls and a gallery over the left-hand bay, supported by a plain panelled front and two plain columns.

Local climate

Unitarian Chapel and Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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