Chapel House

Chapel House is a Congregational chapel and schoolroom, dating from 1821. It was reseated and embellished in 1881 and converted into a dwelling in 1980. The building is constructed of rendered random rubble, with expressed quoins on the chapel, and has a gabled slate roof. The main chapel block has three bays and faces South, with a two-bay schoolroom set back on the West front. The chapel is two storeys high and has two bays with three bays in the chapel part; the chapel windows are round-headed with Y tracery in rusticated surrounds, a late 19th-century addition. The central entrance has six-panel double doors topped by a tripartite fanlight, beneath an 18th-century segmental porch supported by slender columns. A string course below the gable forms a pediment containing a stone plaque inscribed “Congregational chapel 1821.” The schoolroom to the left has twelve-pane cruciform casements on the first floor and twentieth-century French windows to the left. Internally, a late 19th-century pine gallery, supported by wooden columns, and two pews remain. The Congregational chapel was founded in Milverton in 1770.