St Michaels Cottages and Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1952. Almshouses, chapel.
St Michaels Cottages and Chapel
- WRENN ID
- distant-pediment-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1952
- Type
- Almshouses, chapel
- Address
- St Michaels Cottages and Chapel, Church Street, Well
- OS grid reference
- SE 268 820
- Coordinates
- 54.23317, -1.59036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Michaels Cottages and Chapel is a group of four almshouses and a chapel built in 1758. The structure is made of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. It is two storeys high and consists of 12 bays, with a two-bay chapel on the left. Each almshouse features a symmetrical facade with three bays, a central board door surrounded by chamfered jambs, and all windows are two-light with ovolo moulded mullions and plain stone surrounds. Above the central two bays on the first floor are coat of arms representing the Nevill and Cecill families of Burghley. A water pump is attached to the center, with a datestone above it. The chapel has a central moulded pointed-arched doorway with moulded imposts and a board door, flanked by two-light mullion windows with round heads for each light. The ends of the chapel have stone coping. There are four ridge stacks and an end stack on the right. Notably, the mullions, chapel doorway, and chapel windows are made from reused medieval and 16th-century stone. The Hospital Almshouses were originally founded in 1342 and were located in Well Hall before being moved to this site in 1758.
Local climate
St Michaels Cottages and Chapel receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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