Workhouse Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1983. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Workhouse Chapel
- WRENN ID
- inner-lantern-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1983
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Workhouse Chapel, Bath Road, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1EB
- OS grid reference
- ST 786 147
- Coordinates
- 50.93194, -2.30467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Workhouse Chapel, built in the mid-19th century, is constructed from squared, dressed rubble arranged in courses, with a tiled roof featuring gable ends and ashlar dressings. The west gable faces the road and includes two lancet windows with diagonal leaded lights beneath two-centred arches, along with a round quatrefoil window positioned above. A central gabled porch features a two-centred arch with continuously chamfered jambs and a plank double door set in an ashlar moulded surround with a two-centred head. The porch has ashlar coping that terminates in a finial, and the main gable also has ashlar coping topped with a bellcot.
Local climate
Workhouse Chapel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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