Chapel Cottage Former Baptist Chapel, Minister's House (Chapel Cottage), Forecourt Walling, Railings and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Chapel, minister's house. 4 related planning applications.
Chapel Cottage Former Baptist Chapel, Minister's House (Chapel Cottage), Forecourt Walling, Railings and Gate
- WRENN ID
- bitter-zinc-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Chapel, minister's house
- Address
- Chapel Cottage Former Baptist Chapel, Minister's House (Chapel Cottage), Forecourt Walling, Railings and Gate, Steps Lane, Hemington, BA2 7QZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 774 534
- Coordinates
- 51.27931, -2.32442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Cottage is a former Baptist chapel and minister's house, now serving as a dwelling, with the chapel and school room repurposed as an agricultural store. The building features a datestone in the center of the frontage that reads "1836" and has undergone some 20th-century alterations. It is constructed from coursed and squared rubble with freestone dressings and has hipped slate roofs, giving it an austere appearance.
The chapel is two stories tall and has a two-bay central section flanked by lower wings, creating a 3:2 bay arrangement. The windows are sash types with cambered and segmental heads, complete with glazing bars and plain stone architraves that have emphasized keys, except for the casement windows in the dwelling which have plain architraves. The chapel has a central door with a cambered head that opens to a plank door, while the dwelling has a half-glazed door with a cambered head.
Inside the chapel, there is a galleried interior and a memorial, and the school room features a chimney-piece. The forecourt wall is made of rubble and ramps up on each side, topped with dressed coping. In the center, there is a section of spear-capped railings and gates, along with the remains of a wrought-iron standard lamp to the right. Part of the forecourt wall on the left has been demolished to create an opening to Chapel Cottage.
Local climate
Chapel Cottage Former Baptist Chapel, Minister's House (Chapel Cottage), Forecourt Walling, Railings and Gate receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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