Wesley Chapel and Attached Schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1994. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.

Wesley Chapel and Attached Schoolroom

WRENN ID
final-wicket-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1994
Type
Chapel
Address
Wesley Chapel and Attached Schoolroom, Chapel Terrace, Porthleven, TR13 9HS
OS grid reference
SW 629 258
Coordinates
50.08557, -5.31524
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wesley Chapel and the attached schoolroom is a non-conformist chapel built in 1840, as indicated by the datestone in the central niche of the pediment. The front features thin courses of granite ashlar with a dressed granite plinth, a first-floor sill string, voussoirs, and a pediment frame, while the rest is constructed of rubble with granite dressings and asbestos slate hanging on the rear wall of the schoolroom. The roofs are covered with asbestos slate, hipped over the schoolroom. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a rectangular chapel at the front and an aisleless layout. The chapel has two storey elevations, while the schoolroom is single-storey over a basement. The chapel's symmetrical front has two windows and includes single-storey 20th-century extensions on both sides of the central doorway. The round-arched windows feature Y tracery, and the elliptically-arched doorway is adorned with a pair of chamfered late 19th-century four-panel doors and a Y-traceried fanlight. To the right of the doorway, there is a four-pane window. The rear of the building has a three-window range with three central stepped lights, all of which are round-arched with Y-traceried windows. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Wesley Chapel and Attached Schoolroom receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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