Chapel Cottage About 100 Metres West of Weston Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. A Medieval Chapel, dwelling. 2 related planning applications.
Chapel Cottage About 100 Metres West of Weston Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- western-corbel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- Chapel, dwelling
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Chapel Cottage About 100 Metres West of Weston Farmhouse, TA20 3DQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 290 090
- Coordinates
- 50.87696, -3.01023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Cottage, located about 100 meters west of Weston Farmhouse, is a building that was originally a chapel from the 15th century and was converted into a dwelling in the 16th century. A staircase was added, likely in the 19th century, and the windows were altered in the 20th century. The structure is built of random rubble and local stone, with quoins and a triple Roman tile roof featuring coped verges and a brick stack on the east gable end.
The layout consists of a single-cell chapel that has been transformed into a two-cell dwelling, with a central straight stair added later. The building is one and a half storeys high, featuring an inserted two-light dormer that rises from the eaves. On the ground floor, there is a two-light window with a brick surround to the left of the entrance, a 20th-century plate glass window to the right, and a lean-to porch made of concrete blocks with a half-glazed door. The right gable end has an early 19th-century two-light window situated to the right of the stack at first-floor level. The left return, or west end, has a blocked doorway with a chamfered Ham stone arch.
Inside, there is a straight stair at the entrance, and the kitchen displays stop-chamfered beams with step and run-out stops. The remains of a fireplace bay have been altered by the installation of a modern cooker, and there are remnants of a bread oven to the left, which was inserted in the location of the former stair. To the right, there is a recess that now serves as a cupboard. The first floor features a 12-compartment wagon roof with chamfered beams and a wallplate. This building originally served as the chapel of ease for the village of Weston, which has since been deserted.
Local climate
Chapel Cottage About 100 Metres West of Weston Farmhouse 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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