Hillhaven and Former Chapel Attached, and Front Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. House, chapel. 1 related planning application.
Hillhaven and Former Chapel Attached, and Front Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- waiting-thatch-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House, chapel
- Address
- Hillhaven and Former Chapel Attached, and Front Boundary Wall, Sutton Road, Somerton, TA11 6QP
- OS grid reference
- ST 486 284
- Coordinates
- 51.05348, -2.73394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hillhaven and former chapel. The house dates to the early 19th century, with the attached chapel of the same period. The house is constructed of local lias stone, squared and cut, with a Welsh slate roof to the chapel; the house roof is hidden behind a plain parapet. Brick chimney stacks are visible at the rear.
The house is two storeys high and has a west elevation featuring 16-pane sash windows with dovetailed stone lintols in the first bay. The second bay contains a 20th-century door and porch, with a small-paned casement window. The north elevation of the chapel, which abuts the house, has two 16-pane sashes with semi-circular, radially-glazed toplights set high in the wall. Below and between these windows is a pair of part-glazed boarded doors, topped by a semi-circular fanlight. The chapel’s west elevation has two larger, matching windows, with alterations to the lower sections. The interiors have not been inspected.
A boundary wall, approximately 1 metre high with shaped coping, extends from the corner of the former Bible Christian Schoolroom, across the forecourt to these two buildings. This wall enhances the group value of the properties. The wall includes square ashlar gate piers with plinths and four gabled tops, and a wrought and cast iron gate.
Local climate
Hillhaven and Former Chapel Attached, and Front Boundary Wall 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 63% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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