Chapel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. A Medieval Cottage. 5 related planning applications.

Chapel Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1961
Type
Cottage
Period
Medieval
Address
Chapel Cottage, Chapel Lane, Compton Pauncefoot, BA22 7EF
OS grid reference
ST 656 262
Coordinates
51.03445, -2.49146
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chapel Cottage is a detached cottage, possibly incorporating a former chapel, dating from the 15th century and later. It is constructed of local stone rubble with Doulting stone dressings and features a thatched roof between coped gables, along with stone chimney stacks that have traditional baffles. The building is two storeys high and consists of four bays arranged in two units set at an angle to each other.

Bay 1 has plain chamfered mullioned stone windows without labels, with a 3-light window below and a 2-light window above. Bay 2 features a 20th-century 2-light casement window above and a small rectangular window below. Between these bays is a blocked 4-centre arched doorway, which now has a 9-pane casement window. Bay 3 has a mezzanine window with a pointed 4-centre 20th-century arch, while bay 4 contains 2-light casements, one of which is older. All windows, except for the one blocking the doorway, have rectangular leaded panes.

On the east gable, there is a projecting chimney stack with offsets, and there is a lean-to against the west gable. The interior has not been seen, but it is reported to include a rear stair turret with a circular stone staircase, some chamfered beams with step and hollow curve stops, and a roof featuring a single chuck truss.

Local climate

Chapel Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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