The Old Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Dwelling, former Congregational Chapel.
The Old Chapel
- WRENN ID
- other-granite-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Dwelling, former Congregational Chapel
- Address
- The Old Chapel, Tatworth and Forton
- OS grid reference
- ST 334 056
- Coordinates
- 50.84685, -2.9473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Chapel is a Congregational Chapel, now a dwelling, built around 1830. It features a rendered exterior that mimics ashlar, a double Roman tiled roof, and barge boards on the gable ends, with a brick stack on the left side. The chapel is a single cell structure facing north, with a vestry and a lean-to addition on the east front. The gable-fronted chapel has a circular window in the gable end with radiating glazing bars above a central semi-circular-headed doorway. This doorway includes a fanlight with radiating glazing bars and a 20th-century boarded door, flanked by two 20-pane cast iron fixed light windows with a 4-pane opening at the center top. To the left, there is a semi-circular headed fixed light window and a plank door in the brick lean-to addition. The right side of the building is unlit, and the rear elevation is thought to have another cast-iron fixed light window. In the early 20th century, this building was used by piece workers who mended netting produced at the nearby Perry Street textile factory.
Local climate
The Old Chapel receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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