The Old Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 October 1972. Chapel. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Chapel
- WRENN ID
- tired-ashlar-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 October 1972
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- The Old Chapel, Chapel Lane, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BL
- OS grid reference
- SX 877 511
- Coordinates
- 50.3492, -3.57889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Chapel is a former Baptist chapel, later used as a Pentecostal church, and is currently disused as of July 1990. It was built in 1824 and enlarged with the addition of a school in 1878. The building is constructed from local limestone rubble with brick dressings, and the front is finished in stucco with rusticated quoins on the eastern corner. It has a hipped slate roof.
The exterior features a symmetrical two-window front with tall round-headed fixed-pane windows that have Gothic Y-tracery in their heads. There is a large central doorway with a flat shouldered stucco surround and a low-pitched hoodmould. The doors are recessed and consist of late 19th-century folding double doors with diagonal planks, all beneath an overlight with glazing bars. Above the doorway is an oculus window with radial glazing bars. The right side wall has four large round-headed windows similar to those at the front, but these are 24-pane sash windows with fixed-pane heads featuring Gothic Y-tracery. Other parts of the building are obscured by a tall stone boundary wall.
The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
The Old Chapel receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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