Former Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1980. Former chapel. 4 related planning applications.
Former Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- gentle-floor-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Poole MP: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1980
- Type
- Former chapel
- Address
- Former Baptist Chapel, Hill Street, BH15 1NR
- OS grid reference
- SZ 011 906
- Coordinates
- 50.71582, -1.98466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former Baptist chapel, dating to around 1815, with alterations made around 1879 and further changes in the 20th century. More recently, around 2020, it was converted into an outreach centre. The building is constructed from brick with terracotta dressings and a concrete tiled pitched roof. It has a rectangular plan.
The building is two storeys high, with pedimented gable ends to both the north-west and south-east elevations. The front elevation (south-east) has slightly recessed corners. A late 19th-century terracotta moulded pediment, containing an oculus dated 1815, sits above a triple round-arched window with architrave, keys and imposts. A similar moulded pediment, supported by pilasters, fronts a late 19th-century porch. A mid-20th-century door surround has an architrave framing a two-leaf, eight-panel door. The original three-door entrance has been blocked, and the central doorway is now obscured by the porch.
Internally, the south gallery was rebuilt around 1879 when an organ recess and vestries were added to the west end. During the conversion into an outreach centre, the interior was refitted and the original pews removed.
Local climate
Former Baptist Chapel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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