53, Ham Hill Road is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. House, former chapel.
53, Ham Hill Road
- WRENN ID
- low-spire-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- House, former chapel
- Address
- 53, Ham Hill Road, Stoke Sub Hamdon
- OS grid reference
- ST 476 171
- Coordinates
- 50.95096, -2.74719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 on Ham Hill Road is a house that was formerly a chapel, dated 1842. It is built of Ham stone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features a double Roman clay tiled roof with stepped coped gables and a brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and consists of two sets of two bays.
The east elevation displays semi-circular arched windows with plain ashlar surrounds on the upper level, although the window in the second bay is now blocked. Below these, there is a 20th-century casement window in the first bay and a blank second bay. Between the bays, there is a semi-circular arched doorway with a 20th-century boarded door, above which is a plaque that reads 'Bible Christi Chapel MDCCCXLII'.
On the north elevation, there are three-light plain mullioned windows, with the upper window featuring segmental pointed ashlar relieving arches. An additional 20th-century window has been inserted in the lower left. The group of Bible Christians, who founded the chapel known as Zion in 1826, used it until about 1882. The date when it was converted into a house is not known.
Local climate
53, Ham Hill Road receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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