Chapel at Saltram House is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Chapel at Saltram House
- WRENN ID
- plain-plinth-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1960
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel at Saltram House, Merafield House, City of Plymouth, PL7 1UH
- OS grid reference
- SX 519 556
- Coordinates
- 50.38216, -4.08324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chapel at Saltram House, located on Merafield Road in Plympton, is a building that was originally a barn, later converted to a chapel. It is possibly of late medieval origin and was converted in 1743, as noted on a rainwater head. This conversion is attributed to Stockman, who also designed the Orangery and possibly the garden house. The structure is built of local rubble, mostly rendered, and features a dry slate hipped roof behind an embattled parapet. It is designed in the Gothic style with a rectangular plan and is a single storey. The front is symmetrical with five bays and has buttresses, with pointed-arched openings. The Gothic-style windows include Y tracery, and there is a central doorway with panelled doors and a fanlight above. Similar windows can be found at the rear. The interior has not been inspected but is described as very simple.
Local climate
Chapel at Saltram House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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