Former Poor House, at Rear of Chapel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1984. Poor house.
Former Poor House, at Rear of Chapel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-copper-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1984
- Type
- Poor house
- Address
- Former Poor House, at Rear of Chapel Cottage, Main Street, Mudford, BA21 5TE
- OS grid reference
- ST 573 198
- Coordinates
- 50.97649, -2.60826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Poor House, located at the rear of Chapel Cottage, dates back to 1817 and is currently being converted into two houses as of April 1983. It is constructed of red brick in English Garden wall bond and features a plain clay tile roof with coped gables and brick end chimney stacks. The building is two stories tall with four bays. The upper windows in bays one and two are tall 15-pane casements, with blocked openings below. Bays three and four have small pane upper casement windows with two lights, and bay four includes a lower three-light casement window. There are two entrance doors in bays three and four, which are now enclosed by 20th-century porches. An incised Ham stone plaque located between the upper windows of bays three and four indicates the date of 1817, along with the names of the churchwardens and builder. The building holds good group value and is of considerable local historical interest.
Local climate
Former Poor House, at Rear of Chapel Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 56% 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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