Former St Michael's Roman Catholic Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1974. Church, warehouse. 3 related planning applications.
Former St Michael's Roman Catholic Church
- WRENN ID
- quartered-hall-indigo
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1974
- Type
- Church, warehouse
- Address
- Former St Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Townsend, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5SB
- OS grid reference
- ST 616 433
- Coordinates
- 51.18846, -2.55008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Former St Michael's Roman Catholic Church, now a warehouse, was built in 1804 according to records. The church is faced with Doulting ashlar and features a modern hipped pantile roof. It is designed in the Gothic style and is a single storey structure with four bays. The building has pointed arch windows with three lights, simple reticulated tracery, and hood moulds. There is a gabled solid porch on the right side, which includes a lancet door opening set in a moulded stone surround, with a plain plank door. A further lancet door opening is located between the second and third bays, also in a moulded stone surround, featuring a door with ribbed Gothic decoration and a fanlight with glazing bars above. Above this door is a large quatrefoil window. The left side of the building has a four-bay return.
Local climate
Former St Michael's Roman Catholic Church receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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