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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1961
- Type
- Chapel, house
- Source
- Historic England listing
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.
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