Methodist Chapel, Hall, Railings and Gatepiers Fronting Road is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1989. Chapel, hall. 2 related planning applications.

Methodist Chapel, Hall, Railings and Gatepiers Fronting Road

WRENN ID
heavy-merlon-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1989
Type
Chapel, hall
Address
Methodist Chapel, Hall, Railings and Gatepiers Fronting Road, Village Centre, West Putford
OS grid reference
SS 361 158
Coordinates
50.91909, -4.33243
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Methodist Chapel, dated 1849, is accompanied by a hall and gatepiers added in 1906, with railings from the late 20th century. The chapel is constructed of random rubble with a roughcast facade and features a slate roof and plain bargeboards. The hall is made of coursed rubble, also with a slate roof, decorative ridge tiles, and bargeboards, along with a brick stack on the gable and a lean-to roofed with corrugated iron on the west gable end. The building is arranged in an L-plan, with the chapel lying east-west and the hall in the southwest corner. A single-storey porch faces south onto the road, and railings extend from the southwest corner of the hall to enclose a forecourt, with the site sloping away to the west.

The chapel has two full-height round-headed 6-pane windows with marginal glazing bars, although the lower part of the right-hand window is blocked by a flat-roofed single-storey porch that has segmental-headed double doors. The hall wing features a 4 x 5 sash window. The west gable end of the chapel includes round-headed 16-pane windows that light the gallery, with a round-headed date stone inscribed "Providence Chapel 1849" positioned between them. Below this, there is a single-storey lean-to with a fixed light 3 x 5 pane window. The north side of the chapel is similarly lit with windows like those on the south face, featuring pivoted heads.

Inside the chapel, the walls are rendered, and there is a painted inscription at the east end that reads "Glory to God in the Highest." The ceiling features a rose, and the west end has a gallery that is panelled with pilasters supported by cast iron piers. The gallery includes a panelled dado, benches, and a late 19th-century reading desk. The hall is featureless, and the lean-to contains a kitchen. The gatepiers are square, made of cream brick and rubble with shallow pyramid caps, while the railings are wrought iron with spearhead tops, set in a random rubble wall with bitumenised humpback coping.

Local climate

Methodist Chapel, Hall, Railings and Gatepiers Fronting Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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