The Old Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1961. Chapel, house.

The Old Chapel

WRENN ID
former-plinth-ash
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 June 1961
Type
Chapel, house
Address
The Old Chapel, Church Street, Croscombe
OS grid reference
ST 590 444
Coordinates
51.1979, -2.58729
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Chapel, previously listed as Croscombe Chapel, is a late 14th-century manor house that later became a Baptist chapel and is now a house. An addition was made to the west in the 18th century, and the building was restored around 1980. It features coursed rubble with some colourwash and a pantile roof. There is a square brick stack to the west, set over a coped verge, and an octagonal brick stack to the east. The west end addition has a lean-to pantile roof.

The building has an open hall house design with a cross-passage plan, including twin service rooms at the west end and a solar above. The south elevation showcases a tall pointed-arch stone-mullioned and transomed window with Perpendicular tracery and diamond-paned leaded lights, along with a narrow single-light window with a cusped head on the first floor and a late inserted three-light casement window, also with leaded lights. The north elevation features two large mullioned and transomed windows in a similar style, each with a label.

Inside, the cross-passage has pointed-arch openings in moulded stone surrounds at both ends, with ribbed and studded plank doors. There is an additional half-glazed door opening to the south. A notable interior feature is the hall roof, which consists of five arch-braced trusses with windbracing. A corbelled stone shelf on the south wall displays the arms of the Paulton family, and traces of a similar shelf remain on the north wall. The service rooms, which now form a single room, have two 4-centred arch door openings. The eastern gable wall reveals the exposed remains of two fireplaces from a now-demolished wing.

Additionally, there is an early 19th-century lamp on an iron bracket at the south-west corner, accompanied by a short section of wrought-iron railings and a gate.

Local climate

The Old Chapel 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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