Former Unitarian Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1952. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Former Unitarian Chapel
- WRENN ID
- seventh-wattle-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1952
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Former Unitarian Chapel, Former Untarian Chapel, Cowl Street, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 619 440
- Coordinates
- 51.19483, -2.54655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Former Unitarian Chapel. Built in 1696 and modified in the 18th century. The building is constructed of limestone rubble, now rendered, with a hipped slate roof. It is rectangular in plan. The facade has Jacobean-style doorways on either side, featuring shouldered moulded architraves, pulvinated friezes, and triangular pediments, with plank doors. Centrally, there are two large semi-circular headed windows, each with three lights and simple Gothic tracery. Cruciform mullions are set within moulded architraves above each doorway, again topped by triangular pediments; four similar openings are present on each return. A square-headed door opening on the right-hand elevation originally provided access to a gallery, which has now been removed.
Local climate
Former Unitarian Chapel 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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