Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Chapel.

Methodist Chapel

WRENN ID
inner-iron-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1987
Type
Chapel
Address
Methodist Chapel, Gulworthy
OS grid reference
SX 452 746
Coordinates
50.55122, -4.18627
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Methodist Chapel is an early to mid-19th century building constructed from granite rubble, featuring a slate roof with gable ends. The chapel auditorium is located on the first floor, accessed through an end entrance to the right at a higher ground level, above a schoolroom in the basement, creating a two-storey structure. The side facing the road and the rear have two large casement windows, each with arched top lights set in stone flat-arched surrounds with stone cills. The basement includes a pair of smaller casement windows and a boarded door to the left on the road side. A small later 19th-century porch is located at the right gable end, featuring a chamfered round-arched entrance, an overlight with Gothic glazing bars, and double boarded doors. There is also a small projecting outshut to the right of the porch with a boarded door. Inside, there is an elliptical arch with pilasters at the gable end opposite the porch, with a reading desk set in front of the arch and pine pews.

Local climate

Methodist Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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