Richmond House and Attached Chapel, Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. House, chapel.
Richmond House and Attached Chapel, Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- still-stair-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- House, chapel
- Address
- Richmond House and Attached Chapel, Walls and Railings, 61, High Street, Chard Town
- OS grid reference
- ST 318 085
- Coordinates
- 50.87234, -2.96942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Richmond House, along with its attached chapel, walls, and railings, is a house dating from the early 19th century. It features painted roughcast, likely over limestone rubble, and has a slate roof with stepped stone coping on a brick stack at the right gable end, as well as a ridge stack inside the left range. The building has a double-depth plan and a symmetrical central staircase layout, with a three-window range to the right. It stands two storeys high with a four-window range. The entrance consists of a six-panel door situated between canted bays, which have margin pane glazing, and the first floor features 8/8-pane sash windows. The left bay has a 6/6-pane sash window on the ground floor and an enlarged early 20th-century three-light casement above.
Inside, there is a close open-well open-storey staircase with a swept pine handrail and stick balusters, along with late 19th-century four-panel doors. The property also includes subsidiary features such as spearheaded railings with a working gate, a low brick wall with rounded brick capping at the front, and a high rubblestone wall at the rear left return that has a gate leading to a small chapel in the garden.
The chapel, also from the early 19th century, has had its windows enlarged in the late 19th century, featuring 2/2-pane sashes with margin panes and a pointed arch window at the south end. The interior of the chapel is entirely lined with horizontal tongued-and-grooved boarding. It is currently used as a games room and garage, with a 20th-century garage door on the left.
Local climate
Richmond House and Attached Chapel, Walls and Railings receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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