Chapel Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1956. A Medieval Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Chapel Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-beam-wind
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1956
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Chapel Farmhouse, Charlcombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 726 687
- Coordinates
- 51.41674, -2.39477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Farmhouse is a farmhouse that incorporates the former Chapel of St. Lawrence. It dates back to the 15th century and was altered in the late 16th and 17th centuries. The building is constructed of ashlar and coursed rubble with freestone dressings, featuring plain and double Roman tiled roofs, along with ashlar and rendered stacks. It has an L-plan layout, with the former chapel serving as the rear wing.
The west elevation has two storeys and attics, comprising two bays. On the left (north) side, there are three-light casement windows with ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds, topped with dripmoulds. On the right side, there is a three-light cross window on the ground floor, also with ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds, and a two-light cross window on the first floor with chamfered mullions and surrounds, under a dripmould. There is a blocked square chamfered window on the left and an angle buttress with offsets in the centre, likely the north-west corner of the chapel, with another buttress to the right.
The south elevation features the gable of the cross wing at the left (west) end, which has a slightly projecting stack and a further projecting section of masonry to the left. There is a two-light cross window in chamfered surrounds under a dripmould, as well as a later projecting gabled porch. The body of the chapel is visible to the right, showcasing a central buttress with offsets. On the ground floor, there are two three-light casement windows, with the right window having chamfered mullions and surrounds. On the first floor, to the left, is a two-light cross window in chamfered surrounds, and to the right is a two-light window with four-centred heads and a chamfered surround. At an intermediate level, there are two blocked two-light Perpendicular style windows with four-centred heads; the right window retains dagger tracery in the upper part and a dripmould.
The east wall of the former chapel has been rebuilt, but the north wall retains a similar arrangement to the south, featuring a central buttress and two blocked 15th-century windows. Inside the easternmost part, the mullions and surrounds of the windows can be seen, along with an ogee-headed piscina.
Local climate
Chapel Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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