Thornehill Head Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. Chapel.

Thornehill Head Methodist Chapel

WRENN ID
outer-steel-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1988
Type
Chapel
Address
Thornehill Head Methodist Chapel, Buckland Brewer
OS grid reference
SS 413 165
Coordinates
50.9263, -4.25853
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thornhill Head Methodist Chapel is a Methodist chapel built around 1850. It features colourwashed render over coursed slatestone rubble and has a gabled slate roof. The building is one storey high and has a two-window range. The windows are framed by semi-circular arches with keyed and painted architraves, showcasing Gothic-style glazing-bar casements with margin lights. To the right, there is a gabled porch that contains a mid-19th century six-panelled door with a Gothic-style fanlight. A similar window is located in the right gable end, and there are two additional similar windows at the rear. Inside, the chapel has a moulded plaster cornice and window architraves, as well as pitch-pine pews and a preaching desk.

Local climate

Thornehill Head Methodist Chapel 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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